[ ...It really is a whole different world that Natsume lives in, but she'd always known that. She knew it from the first time he spoke with her, how utterly incomprehensible he is in everything he says and does and believes— is what she thought, anyways, line of her lips thinning at the resignation, eyes darting up in surprise at the usage of her name, though she looks away after, and then is forced to look at him again because that's what she does when she talks. ]

It's passable. [ ... ] Sakasaki.

[ But she also shakes her head, because she does not believe in futility, or giving into it. ]

Even if you forget and make the same mistakes, things will not happen exactly the same as before. Your actions and your feelings affect and shape you, your soul, in ways you are not always conscious of. Every time you take a life, or lose one, it is bound to leave a mark, for better or for worse. As long as you experience, you will change.

[ And as long as he changes, makes a different choice here and there, the spiral won't go on forever. ]