[ Natsume has a certainty in his voice that yanks Junpei out of the pit he’d been sinking into. He looks back at the other with a startled expression, still tinged with pain but not as hopeless as he’d been a second before. ]

My mother ... he’s why she died too. I know it. I didn’t realize it then ... but joining with him ... if I hadn’t ...

[ Tears start to form in the corners of his eyes, even as he struggles to hold them back. ]

I don’t want to be here. I don’t want to be anywhere. I want her back. I want her to be okay ...