[ Those are the last words Rin wants to hear, and they already feel like daggers being shoved into his ears, unwilling to accept that this all is the end right here. He's supposed to live here alone until he can figure out a way to help them put everything back together. That's what they want, isn't it? To use all those recovered bits of code to reconstruct all those worlds that were supposedly destroyed. It makes Rin wonder how and why he survived out of everyone.

He still doesn't want to believe it. Call it stubbornness or hope, but he knows his friends and his family are still somewhere he can reach. He doesn't care what he has to do or how hard he has to look, unwilling to accept despair without trying for himself. ]

I'm not believing it until I've exhausted every possibility. Even then, I have to get back somehow. I'm not just going to stay here and grow old in this place and miss out on my future.

[ A job, an apartment, and all the credits CERES has to offer aren't going to make it all 'okay,' but he does want a place to sleep and settle down in after all that running. ]

I take it the explanation's the same for everyone. Did they send they send this messed up welcome committee after you, too? Why try and kill us after asking us for help?

[ Something's definitely 'off' about the whole situation, and it doesn't make him any more inclined to trust CERES or any of their intentions at the moment. ]