midori doesnt even need to tell kanata. he knows when midori has particularly bad days or starts worrying a lot more than usual, and so he takes him to a nearby lake in town, or to the fountain in the courtyard if it’s during school hours, or even just a nearby flower field with a small pond in the corner and they watch the water and he lets midori lean against him and allow himself to vent to someone’ll who’ll listen and not try to intervene or tell him to be positive, but just tell him that he’s okay and needed and he’s not doing anything wrong. midori fiddles with the sea creature plush he received from kanata to calm himself and it brings a smile to kanata’s face. they sit in a semi-quiet understanding, and even if the next day or the next hour, it’s back to midori being annoyed at kanata’s shenanigans and sighing at ryuseitai, he knows he has kanata and kanata cares for him.