[No one's ever called him beautiful before.]

No! No, don't--don't say things like that, don't... Ch-Chloe, and Miki, and you...

[He steps back from his podium, shaking his head, then pressing his hands over his mouth as everything starts to unravel around him.]

I... I-I can't, I can't take this anymore, I can't... [Oooh, yeah, he's crying, desperate and lost as a child.] I keep--losing all my friends, Lucie, no...

[It won't stop. Slowly, he bends, then crumples to his knees, sobbing his heart out.]