Just because you don't need it doesn't mean I can stop it, you know? So just... stay alive, damn it. I know it's going to happen again but I don't want it to happen again.

[He shrugs out of his coat, and drops it on his boots, and looks between the pair of them. These two boys - he'd have never thought before here that he'd find himself caring for them this much. He'd never have thought he'd find friends he'd think of as his grandfather must have Arthur and Jack, as brothers more than comrades. He bites his lower lip as he takes hold of Nagisa's shoulder and (again) one of Yurick's hands.

He knows why Nagisa's voice took that edge. But he noticed that little stammer, too.]

Every time I've shut my eyes I've seen more people I know on that ball of corpses we had to fight. She's there, Vita's there, Akira, Mist - Sir Rosenkreuz, Naoya, and I tried sleeping and then Barbara and Angela and both of you and C and - and I was the only one left and I couldn't -

Just -

You're damned right they wouldn't want to see you because of this place. And Yurick, you - told you to live, right? Anybody's parents would. My father did, even though he knew I...

[He can't spit it out at a time like this, it's not right to.]