I don't agree. I have no problems with "gathering courage" to tell Kotomi about myself or my story. Tell her that I've killed people? That my father was a monster that should burn in an eternal hell and who used his own children as cannon fodder? That I've died more times I care to count? That I've tried to kill myself and even tried to use my brothers for it? That's okay, I can tell her.

But I don't want her to know, simply that. She doesn't need to, she doesn't have to know. Even if you told me there would be no risks of her running away from me or anything bad, I still would hold back from telling her.

[So yea, it's totally not because he's scared of losing her, that's just a coincidence!]

I guess... At worst I can always just sit and wait for a blue bird brain to start playing games around the crowd.