It's got nothing to do with guilt, he wants to protest. You wouldn't like him if you didn't 'remember' liking him. But fuck that, that's just cruel. He can't do a thing like that, not even to a shithead like Chikusa.

And really, what's it matter if the kid believes he's in love with the other idiot? No skin off Gojyo's nose if their junior-size hormones had...

...oh shit. The realization actually jolts him out of his previous (depressing, never-ending) existential crisis.

"Maybe you're right." He can't believe that he didn't realize it before. Hakkai's feeling the emotions of two horny teenagers.

This might be the funniest thing ever.

"Maybe that is more important."

He's going to rupture something if he doesn't laugh. Oh shit.