Yes. [He sighs. It's hard to say something like this, especially to a boy who he does feel a responsibility for. Now, more than ever, as Chikusa's only god.

He doesn't think he'd ask Chikusa to come back to his world with him, though, even were such a thing possible, or either of them still alive. If he isn't dead already and forgetting it, he's walking into a suicide mission, and he's well aware of that.]

I want to discover what's brought us here, what is keeping us here and what's happened to the souls of those who disappear.