[At the touch of cold metal against his skin, Komaeda flinches—and while Souda's hands themselves are warm, just being touched alone has got him on edge. He fidgets in his seiza, but manages to keep still for his classmate's sake.]

Hah— [He exhales a sigh of his own,] congratulations to future me.

[It shouldn't sound so condescending, but the truth of the matter is...]

I apologize for not being the same version you remember, but as far as my memory serves... I've always been an outsider. I don't blame people for avoiding me, my luck tends to only cause trouble for others.

[It's for the better, anyways.

He still believes that—on some level—because he and Nanami had been together, his luck was the reason she had been captured by Junko in those final moments.]

There are only two people... who stubbornly tried to get close to me...