Yeah, [and he really doesn't even seem to oppose the idea that the team assembled can prevent/reverse any apocalypses] but nobody else was like me and Link, right? Just like nobody else ended up in the same situation as Himeko Inaba-san...

[He looks up into the rafters, a soft smile on his face.]

I think that... Ikuya has to still be alive. Because... otherwise... Well. For one thing. They didn't hold back anything else that could make what we went through worse. It just wouldn't make sense.