[ Alberto listens carefully, and a flicker of emotion grows across his face, too, eyes gazing somewhere distant in turn. But he naturally matches Tsumugi beat by beat, letting a wistful smile spread on his own lips and he washes the melancholy thoughts back down with a sip of his own espresso. ]

...Heh. I know what you mean. Luca and me are really different, too — aaand we totally had a big fight once, aha... But! We fixed it. And in the end I even helped him do the thing we were fighting about, eheh, sooo...! It all worked out. We both got to live our dreams— even if... we had to do it apart from each other.

[ Another blip, before he jolts and wipes that clear, too, adding on hastily: ]

For now! Until Luca's done with school, like I said. Then we're going back to Plan A, hehe, and we'll do our original dream together, like we were supposed to. And it'll be even better than it would've been, cuz now it'll be like we got to practice, y'know, doing dream stuff, heh!

[ It's an odd but sweet way to look at it. But whether or not he manages to disguise it with light, offhand laughter, there's still something bittersweet about the sound of all this... But indeed, sounds like they fixed it. Alberto's still standing here telling him about Luca from another universe over, after all. ]