[Kokichi is silent as he leans into Rantaro's embrace.]

...There's nothing left for us at home.

I looked past a door, near the end of the game. The door wasn't quite open, but I pick locks. It's what I do, I was a thief kid, I know thieving and I pick locks and I got it open and outside... [He swallows.] Outside there was fucking nothing.

Even if Maki hadn't killed me, there'd be nothing to go back to! We're stuck here! No matter what happens...I can't just run away to somewhere else, if we manage to get out of here, I can't just fucking...run off to another world and let you handle things on your own like a selfish prick, going 'he'll be fine, he has his idol friends,' because I'm so goddamn convinced that the grass is greener if I run away from everything I did wrong...!!

[He can't help it at this point. He starts crying a bit.]

There are things I don't remember and I feel bad about. I don't remember what happened with Miu and Gonta, and they were my best friends. I don't remember how I got into that stupid school and I'm so determined to lie to myself because if I fill the space, then it's not empty--!!

Everyone is dead and even this place is falling apart and I don't know what to do.

I'm scared. I'm always scared, but now I'm really scared.