[Oh, so they're going to think about this, huh. Or at least Junpei is still thinking about it, even after she apologizes. He likes to think raw determination can carry him through to the end of whatever's coming, but he remembers those rare moments of being knocked off-kilter by a question; What about the people we're leaving to die? What about—and he's tried really, really hard not to think about this one—the people left behind in the histories he and his gaggle of SHIFTers have deemed too doomed to save?

So now he's thinking about it. The people who'd choose to stay here, for whatever reason...]

I— huh. I'm not sure it has to be go home happy or go home miserable. Like, uh... [mmm-] Loads of people I liked in this place are gone, but they were still here, and that still mattered to me. Even if I want to go home, that still mattered.

[He shakes his head. Maybe he should have sat up for this Real Conversation, but no, he is still on the dang floor. Too late now.]

I guess I just mean it doesn't have to be suffering all the way down. "Moving forward" and "suck it up and deal" aren't the same thing.