[yusuke knows that now, but part of him still feels the pain of being used his whole life for nothing more than fame and money. he smiles a little, wryly]

... I wonder how things would have turned out had someone told me that when I was younger. Perhaps I would have run away. But that was always what kept me there--I had nowhere else to go, no one else to turn to... until I met Ann, Akira, and Ryuji.