[The funny part is, it's not even the disappearance that bothers him so much as it is his own helplessness to prevent it. It's not as though they hadn't gone months without Yanagi-kun around before. The breaking of the troika is upsetting, but he's still a step removed from that, free from being affected the way that Yukimura or Sanada might be. It's not as though Niou had gone. And it's not as though he isn't likely better off, anyway, back in Kanagawa where they all arguably belong.

It's funny because it's the helplessness that bothers him, and he and Rise have had this conversation before, not so long ago, with the roles reversed. But they do say it's much easier to give advice than to take it yourself.]

It's useless to get attached to this world, anyway. To think that way, wanting someone to return--shouldn't the perspective be relief that they've escaped, and eagerness for the day we'll manage it ourselves?

[Isn't it dangerous, growing complacent here, and risking forgetting what all they'd left behind?]