Who knows - ( Cheerful, falsely bright. ) - Maybe I'll trip and drown and put us both out of our misery.

( His grin flashes in the dark, the sea reflecting the light from the moon. It still leaves him feeling wrongfooted, talking to Satoru. It makes him thing he absolutely did the right thing leaving all those years ago. The decade would have certainly been worse had they been able to tear chunks from each other. )

I'm fine, I know how to hold my liquor.

( Maybe. )