[There's a...slight shift of discomfort. He trusts Phantom it's just...having to admit a lot of this, especially since it involves Tifa, he's really feeling how personal and intimate this all is.

...That and just talking about anything of his personal emotions is so unfamiliar to him.]

...If... I had to start from the beginning... Then it would have to go back to when I first lost my family when I was a child. That was when the fear of losing anyone important became so deeply rooted that it changed my outlook and behavior in life... I closed myself off and strove to be as strong and capable as possible so I wouldn't have to go through it again. However in recent years I've managed to step away from that so I could trust others.

But... It all resurfaced when Tifa almost froze and drowned in the lake last winter.