Koizaki is also bright, just in a different way. His expressions can be as grand, happiness, determination, pleading, but there’s something behind them that feels tired. He’s accomplished much, perhaps he feels he constantly has to keep proving himself when he has already. His potential feel boundless, but also as if it can burn out quickly like a sparkler on a summer evening, a piece of coal glowing bright and expanding all of it’s energy at once, a match that burns down the stick.
He wonders how to encourage him to rest without sounding patronizing, to tell him he does not need to prove himself anymore to those he works with, those who speak highly of him and his work.
There’s also some disturbing signs, quirks, and a certain aura that reeks of something terrible, something hidden, something that may prove to be the reasons to the above or part of it, but he does not feel like it is his right or business to pry.
The least he can do he figures, is let the boy pursue knowledge that interests him. Let him look at and study take home courses of his own choice, for himself, not for anyone else. Something he pursues because he wants to. Something he doesn’t have to prove anything in. Promoting anything, he figures, that will encourage self interest, care, and confidence is a good first step to making sure Koizaki’s fire or spark doesn’t die so quickly, to conserve and preserve the potential evident in his bright blue eyes and sometimes hidden by his curly blonde hair.