...Yeah. There's... another thing, too. Some of the reason I was afraid of him was that we're actually alike. In certain ways. I was obsessed with Hope's Peak and becoming more than I was, and he was obsessed with hope and those who were supposed to be the hope of everyone.

[He just, you know. Didn't want to recognise the "being alike" part for the longest time.]

And, you know... it's not like I never thought it, when I was trapped back there. Before I found out everything.

"If I kill someone, maybe I'll get out". Maybe if the situations had been a little different, if I'd been targeted more by the 'evidence' and whatever, then...

[He trails off, and then he shakes his head. He can forgive and move on not just because he knows that many of the things that happened were his fault, but because he could understand the feelings of those who killed.

Even Tsumiki, even Komaeda.]

...Ahh. We really need a drink, Kuwata.