When Kaji looks back up at Zelda, there are tears beginning to spring to his eyes. "Don't they? She's not alone, but she's the one alone who might get hurt if we use this thing. There is some connection to Ib! All because- because she made the most Ib choice she possibly could have last time..."

"She wanted to talk, instead of fight. To talk to the thing that might destroy us all. And for that, she gets put at risk?"

But Kaji looks down, at Zelda's hand barely on his, stopping him from going anywhere. He speaks again, before he really thinks about it. "What would you do? If there was a thing, that could stop total destruction, but it might come at the cost of the person you care about most in the world?"

He almost can't believe he said that, but the look in his eyes is too raw. Kaji The Liar has finally said something completely true.