He remembers Souji's joke, about him asking Grell to marry him out of the blue. And it was a joke at the time, of course, and nothing at all to be taken seriously, even if the late hour might've vaguely annoyed her at the time. But, thinking back, he was rather eager to turn that strange little correspondence into a Valentine's date, wasn't he?

"For Valentine's? A visit to the art museum, and a rather graceless display of the two of us attempting to ice skate."