[ he remembers the girl from Belph's memory again - Elcia. Maybe he really was serious about never seeing her again. He finds it hard to believe that he's okay with that - perhaps because Hikage has such a hard time letting go, himself.

Again, however, he doesn't ask, because he doesn't know how. Without context, how can he possibly guess at what happened between them? ]

You're the same as me, then. I can't go back to that place. [ he takes another drink. ] Maybe you could go to my Earth. In the memories I've seen, it doesn't look like a bad place to live nowadays.