I guess we're just in one of those cycles of losing people again. A lot of people. It's been almost a year since we last lost so many... [A soft, sardonic laugh.]

I don't know what to think anymore. Axel left, then Sheik and the others, then Elena and Prince-

And now Axel's gone again too.

A long time ago, I was the one who kept leaving and coming back, they said. Now I'm the one who's been here the longest in World's End. And it's so...

[He doesn't finish, his voice sounding monotonous and strained. He just turns off the communicator.]


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