[He manages to smile.]

Because it makes us stronger, when someone else is helping you. It took me a long time to understand that.

[He starts to wipe his eyes--he'll be okay, but even if he had a hundred years, he probably still wouldn't be able to explain anything better than that. Ankh is important to him, and the people who've become his family are those Eiji will go to hell and back for.]

I think...I think we should probably go now.