[dang those are basically my exact same feelings]

I, too, wish I could help him more. Akira and I offered to take him home with us, since we seem to live in a universe parallel to his, eighteen years in the future. Knowing the solitude he has to suffer in to save the universe... it's too much to comprehend. Recklessly, I think I would take the risk, if it meant saving him from that fate. But... I cannot make that decision for him. Wanting to is just my own selfishness.