[ shoma doesn't even see what shoma's doing, but he at least figures he and kazuki are not going to agree on a few things and that's fine. he respects the guy enough he won't argue about things, and instead he's trying to salvage this. ]

Yeah...I've heard the stipend's supposedly enough money that if we really get it you'd be set for life. It's a big risk when we don't even know it's true, but if it is that'd solve...everything. [ ...he pauses, and he does decide to offer up: ] After my parents divorced, we didn't have a ton of money to be spending on extra stuff. A lot of the parts I bought for Robota and then later for Roboji were from a junk shop just because the price was right, even if I had to do some extra work to refurbish them. And then after my dad died...Amame helped me keep up by paying for bills and groceries for me and stuff. It'd be nice not to worry about that kind of stuff.