( don't give komaeda throwbacks like that especially when she's gone, and his eyes slowly blink as he takes in what's said to him. he hums in thought, lifting his head as he looks up at the ceiling. )

Lingering attachments are no good, but if them mourning over her death is enough to carry them over the next hurdle... I guess it's fine.

( it'd be no good if they were stuck in one place, crying, sobbing over someone they hardly knew — besides, who knows... she could have hated them all, despised them, but komaeda doesn't really care about that. everyone else here, however, seems to. afraid of being rejected, or hated by their peers because they fear the negative consequences that'll come from it... but those are people with innocent hearts, the select few who believe nothing bad has to happen in order to create hope between them... and that working together without a little push is all they need. )

I'm empathetic. ( no, he's really not ) But I don't cry over her death, I wonder why...