[ Maybe it's a weird thing to say, but it's not very strange to say it to Minato. Though his forehead still rests on Kotone's shoulder, he shakes his head a bit in response. ]

No. ...it was the same for me.

[ That year spent with everyone else -- it was the only time he'd truly felt alive. Living is not merely breathing, but doing. If that was the case, then he'd been dead ever since that accident on Moonlight Bridge, only to be resuscitated for that one year.

Actually, that reminds him of something -- ]

...I met someone. Sunglasses? I told him that I hadn't really lived up until that year.

[ Maybe that boy got upset, in part, due to comments like Kotone's being weird to say aloud. ]

I think it upset him. But it's true.