Watching Fuuka do that, he reached for his coat-- whoops. That's right, Pepper had it. Better to hurry to somewhere warm then, make sure they didn't get sick. But her question made him pause, looking back at her.

Shit, he hadn't really thought about that yet. Staying here forever... they'd never see Iwatodai again, and might never see Mitsuru-senpai or Ai-chan or Yuka-tan or Ken or Koro... or his old man. And hell, out of all of them, Fuuka still had both parents in her life, even if they were overbearing as he'd heard. It made a little ball of ice forming in his stomach, thinking of all the people left behind he wouldn't be able to see.

"They said they can't get us home till the problem in this place is fixed, right? I mean, how long have they been doin' this, dragging outsiders to this town to... y'know, touch?"