Cheeks flushing from the kind gesture, Akito offers a small, tentative smile in return before looking down at his feet. Now for the more difficult thing he had wanted to ask of her.

"Um... As for the question I had, I was wondering if you knew..." He takes a breath to steady his nerves. "I was wondering if you knew why I wasn't able to go home. It's... It's not that it doesn't want me back, is it?"

Akito doesn't quite know what he'll do if the answer is that his world doesn't want him back, but knows that he still wants an answer, if there even is one to give.