But it also meant that he was never going to see his friends in Haven ever again, and he'd left them when their fate was hanging in the air, when they could all be dead the next day with no hope of returning to the lives they once had.

Minato didn't want to believe that he'd been the only one brought here out of everyone else who had deserved better, but he couldn't deny how real Junpei's words sounded too no matter how much he tried to reason that things couldn't be that easy. The tissue went unused in his left hand as tears began to well up in his eyes, unable to hold in his frustration any longer- why him, when he was already dead and should have been returned to the Great Seal? Why was he here alone when he'd promised a dear friend long time ago that he'd only leave if everyone else could, back when they'd first became friends and had such high hopes for the future?

"...Why am I here by myself then? Everyone else deserved to leave too!" The rest of what he said was incoherent, lost between accompanying choked sobs and pained gasping. For the first time he felt that Fate could be so cruel, to show him a world where lives were treated as little less than rubble only to release him now- it was unfair, so very unfair!