[ Although Yuta understands the feeling all too well — is painfully aware of all the ways he failed in Shinjuku, how he could have planned better, how Maki had just perfectly voiced everything he'd been thinking himself — he shakes his head in gentle reproach. ]

No, you did more than enough. [ They would have failed without him, undoubtedly. ] But that's the thing, not everyone can come out of all of that and still be the same person, so please don't ever lose that.

[ An unfair request to make? Maybe. But if anyone can (continue to) do it, it'll be Yuji. ]

And it's worth celebrating, no?