Aside from the odd stranger who might mistake me for a mere boy in trouble?
[Like that one who had somehow ended up in the room with them when they were sent back to their worlds; that man had at least tried to distract his enemy... and probably would have died for his trouble. Hopefully he had been sent back to wherever he came from, since he didn't seem to be in this world with them now.]
...I'm not sure. [There were people who were fond of him, to be certain. But he didn't know how far that fondness stretched. Rei, maybe. And... perhaps Asch.
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[Like that one who had somehow ended up in the room with them when they were sent back to their worlds; that man had at least tried to distract his enemy... and probably would have died for his trouble. Hopefully he had been sent back to wherever he came from, since he didn't seem to be in this world with them now.]
...I'm not sure. [There were people who were fond of him, to be certain. But he didn't know how far that fondness stretched. Rei, maybe. And... perhaps Asch.
He smiled, warmed at the thought of them.]
Maybe.