I-It's fine... [ Clearly he misses her a lot, but Sousei already told him to man up, more or less. ]

Y'know, I was hoping that tour would give me some clues about why these things happen, and I was angry with how things ended on that day. I thought it was a waste of time and we got hurt for nothing, but... Peko thinks we might have uncovered something.

[ Which brings him to the second reason of this phonecall, besides checking up on Daddy Kirkland. ]

Can you... tell me what happened to you and Yang after we split up?