Re-really...?

[it's hard to keep from looking so plainly disappointed, especially given how honest in the face Manabu is. the fact he obscures some of his face by bringing a hand to it helps perhaps: he rubs at his cheek, then pinches at it, wondering if, maybe, he's just sleeping. he even closes his good eye just to see if he's not half-blind anymore, but...no, that's the same.]

I can't really...be somewhere new entirely, can I? I didn't die again, I wasn't...I don't think I was doing anything strange...