"It's not like we had much of a choice..." Paradox totally doesn't count. His eyes lower, and he draws his knees up to his chest, folding his arms over them. "It was horrible... and I know this sounds weird, but being here, my life has been more normal than it ever was back home. I just wish some of them could be here for it..."

Not everyone from the Survival Game was that bad. Yuno, obviously, but there was also Minene, and Kurusu, and Reisuke, and... well, Tsubaki might not have turned out so bad if certain things hadn't happened to her, but still. And then there was Hinata and Akise...

"And at least this time, we'd be fighting for a halfway decent cause."