No. [ Subaru doesn't think about the answer much. In fact, it slides off his tongue all too succinctly. It could be that the irritation and fatigue has made him feel too thin to upkeep his worldly demeanor. ] But there was something I wished for... and the only way to see it through was to keep living.

[ He is speaking in past-tense, of course. He likely doesn't need to say that arriving in a mad-deity fueled apocalypse disrupted everything, turned it inside out, and has left him reeling. All he can fall back on are old habits and trying to decipher meaning from this karmic circle of hell, if there is one. What a unique position.

Their tether twists like a muscle spasm and it cords through him in a way that makes him need to move — so he goes to the kitchen and pulls a small glass down from one of the shelves. ]

It's hard to feel like we're capable of resolving anything here. Is that why you visited?

[ With the feeling of failure as hot on his heels as his shadow. ]