[Sorry, Frieda, you've gotten him started talking about Makoto.] He really does! I'm truly lucky to have gotten to share my title with him, even if it was only for a few years until everyone realized his true talent. And to get to spend time with him here...! I shook his hand once, when we were alive, and that was already so--so lucky--but here he's held my hand twice! Three times if I count when I helped pull him off the rope when I found him near the city in the caverns!
I did have to go back and count the hand-holding incidents