[Souji ducks his head then, still smiling, but he also shakes his head a bit as if he just can't accept Haru's kind words.]

I'm not sure it's admirable at all. I was just... scared of being hated, scared of being lonely. And then someone told me what I needed to do so that he'd always need me, and... well, that's what I've been trying to do.

[That certainly doesn't sound very healthy, it's true, but Souji conveniently forgets how much he enjoys helping and protecting others. In a way, he still sees that as a kind of selfishness too.]

I guess... that's the problem, isn't it? The people that usually need me aren't here. [And they don't even really need him back home now, do they? He's only causing them pain by living now.] I think I need to feel like I'm important to people, but now there's someone here with the same name as the first person to ever make me feel needed... but he doesn't. And now there's more than one me, which-

[He falls silent then, embarrassed, but the meaning is all too clear. It makes him feel utterly superfluous.]