[ Dying... she'd known his life was horrible before Hope's Peak, but not that part about it. She'd gathered that he pushed people away, but hadn't realized it was because he was actively dying.

Her heart, such as it is, hurts even more for him.

Their shadowy forms almost overlap now, as Nanami drifts closer, doing her best to envelop him in her shadow, an insubstantial hug as he talks; what little comfort she can give. ]

It wasn't your fault. [ The hypocrisy is staggering - because even after seeing her stage over the summer, the repeating game that promised attempt after attempt to escape the labyrinth, but never actually let her win it - she hadn't believed it herself. But for him, she will.

Because she's allowed to relive that day in her memory constantly and in her nightmares - but she doesn't want him to. ]

She would have killed me one way or another. There wasn't a way out. [ A flash of anger runs through her. A small part of the mock school in front of them collapses, as some of the front boxes near the front fall over. ]

You are that person. Even if you try to pretend not to be - Komaeda-kun -- I cared about you because you cared about me, too. You cared about all of us. You-- you cared so much that you sacrificed yourself at the gym, and I couldn't even stop you!!