"We both said it: He's a good person. He regretted it. All the time, ever since."

There's no humorless laugh. Just an empty smile. Hiro won't have to worry about Ken doing anything; he's calmed down enough and he's in no danger of doing anything, but he's no happy camper.

"But... I think-- no, he warned me about it. About carrying the weight. He carried the weight of what happened to my mom for all that time, and he just wanted to be relieved of it, I think." And he was the one who could have done it. Should have done it!

"Aragaki-san always blamed himself."