"Exposure…" Rui murmured.
"Yes," she remarked, shaking her head with an exasperated sigh. "You know, the way that normal people tend to come to love someone. The more you grow alongside her, the more you can grow to love her."
"The more I grow alongside her…?" Rui murmured.
"Yes," she remarked. "We are social creatures. When we grow, we grow closer to each other. You said you already love half of her. That means you're already halfway there, to put it in terms that you will understand. You just need to grow."
"I see…" Rui's tone was immersed in thought. "I just need to grow."
"Thankfully, you're not particularly short in that regard," Sage Sera remarked. "You have somehow managed to retain your youth, which means your propensity to change is very high. Your propensity to 'adaptively evolve' yourself for love."
Sage Sera inwardly cringed at the conceptualization of love that Rui had, shaking her head with a resigned sigh.
