"... They're not my life. They're someone else's. But..." He can't just throw them away. "But I... I think that they still have meaning. Power. They connect us, even if we didn't know each other before."

... He's sounding like Takeru, but maybe that's not such a bad thing. "I don't think that they mean nothing, even if they're not us. The person I thought I was still wants to protect the person you thought you were. ... And I don't think that has to be a bad thing, if we don't let it be."