[Naoto doesn't react in the slightest to his touch. It's like she's gone numb all over. She can't peel her gaze from off of the floor.]

I... I wanted to help... with the investigation into the murders.

I wanted to stop more of them from happening...

[The image of Johan's head planted in the crook of the tree flashes in her mind, and a shiver runs down her spine causing her whole body to shake.]

At the very least, I should have been... prepared to see something like that... a victim's corpose... but...

But when I actually saw the body... saw who it was... what had been done to him... all I could think was how scared I was... how much I didn't want to be next...

Some help I am... [A second image flashes through her mind; Johan's smiling face at the Tanabata Festival's goldfish game.] some friend I am...