Out of nowhere...

Eh? What?

I couldn't tell either Ichirin or Nue about it.

doesn't fade so easily, does it?

The glow of something you abandoned everything to get

Although... this time I just decided to "stay lost", didn't I?

Isn't this running away too?

Oh, right... Koishi. Thanks for coming to talk to me all those years ago.

I'm sure that you being there, Koishi, was the reason I was able to survive those times.