At least there's that. It'd be worse to be rejected and lose a friend.

[ ha ha. ]

Mm. It's been long enough that we all have friends outside of our teams by now, but they just keep reminding us that most of us will still have to be erased. [ ... ] Even with the messages that we and Wolfwood-san got, knowing that they aren't completely erased... it doesn't make it feel any better to know that we're probably going to die again sooner or later, too.