[He shakes his head, just a little -- he doesn't quite agree. But now isn't the time to debate it.]

So, all this time...you felt it was inevitable that one day you'd forget your Hope's Peak classmates? If you didn't go back to the Sea of Stars?

And -- now that you know what it's like...you're afraid of it. Because it's worse than you thought it would be.

[He's making sure he understands this right by repeating it back, slowly and carefully.]