[Akira listens, and he has to admit that sounds like something that Ryo would think.]

Ryo would rationalise it by pulling some science on me. "Love is the brain making people act weird, here's a study I read." [...Okay, so maybe Akira doesn't know enough science to do an accurate impression of Ryo, but he tried.]

I just want him to be happy. But if he doesn't listen to me about this, he won't listen to anyone.

[And Akira had, in a way, already been let down once by Pyra. Getting snubbed by Ryo after that would hurt.]