B-but it's better if I'm gross! If I'm cute, people won't hate me! Nobody hates you, Kotoko-chan, so that's not good at all for me!

[Be kind to him, Kotoko. Don't make it impossible for people to hate him, how could you do something like that? How could you be so cruel?! And then he adds, a little quietly:]

I care about being underwater...

[He likes his fish friends. Slimy and gross though they are.]