[ Good thing Minato's an expert at giving this explanation by now. ]

She was. But not for me.

[ Um... where to start... ]

I think there were two different versions of our world, one where Kotone was in charge and one where I was. Some things are the same for us, but... some things ended up pretty different.

[ Like, she had a whole social link with Koromaru and he didn't. How is that even fair... ]

...I don't think Kotone existed in my world, and I don't think I existed in Kotone's world.