[His arms slip to clutch quietly at his own elbows, frowning. It's not something he's had to talk about yet, and he certainly wasn't eager to do so. And even if he had warned Leona before, how is he to know the man really believed him about it? He knows how crazy it sounded without proof. It's why HiMERU never expected anyone from ES to understand, and had taken the risk on an outsider. Coming clean about it could cement that suspicion in Leona, which is advantageous, but...]

If I tell you, you can't breathe a word of it to Yodaka. He... won't believe me either. He isn't ready to know.

[Anyone with respect for HiMERU should let him be the one to tell Kaname too, when the time is right — but there's no telling if the time will ever be right, and people show their "respect" in different ways (it never stopped Matoba from fucking blabbing, but thank fuck his esoteric pattern of speech still flew over Kaname's head)...]

For his sake, can you swear that to me?