Saito-san and Konko\'s tears

I haven\'t seen Konko since this morning. I\'ve been worried about him, who hasn\'t been feeling well these past few days, so I asked Sakurako-san about him and found out that today is the anniversary of his mother\'s death. I casually waited for him to return near the mountain path behind the mountain. After a while, I saw him trudging down the mountain path. He seemed to notice me too, and ran over to me and smiled at me. He has a hard smile...this guy is smiling anytime and anywhere. \"Don\'t try too hard...don\'t force yourself to laugh in front of me. You can cry if you want to.\" Konko stares at my face. \"At times like that, stay by my side. You\'re small, so if you stay behind me, the others won\'t be able to see you.\" I didn\'t know what I was doing, but when I saw his smiling face and the tears streaming down my face, I couldn\'t help but casually pat him on the head. \"...Well, apparently tears relieve stress...\" I was wondering what to do with the theme of \"crying face\"... And since I do this in agony, I end up writhing around holding my head later lol. In the second picture, the hair was short, but I added it in Photoshop and made it longer using i2i.