(Ah, something about that certainty... His heart warms and he finds himself starting to smile.

Slipping his hand away, he turns back to the sea, to the crashing waves, the blustery winds, and he yells,)

We could have helped them! We could have saved them!

(He likes to think the waves are loud enough to drown out his cries. Inhaling,)

They weren't just numbers! Not just factors! They were alive! They could have lived!

(And he stops, letting the sea fill the silence before he turns back to Aki,)

Ah! All better. Let's go back.