[ hotaru, so polite... what a good bean. needless to say, it puffs up tsuru's ego extra big! ]

I don't know, actually... [ about where he got them, he means. ] If you stay here long enough, you start... uh, changing.

[ but— ] It's not so bad that we're not swords anymore — here, do you want a lift? I'll carry you over the trees.