Mm. [There's a long pause on his end. Hizumi summed up what he was thinking rather concisely.]

I don't want to become somebody else, or... to be unable to help the people around me. But if other people have to accept their suffering... Then I shouldn't be different. I shouldn't not try just because it's scary. Ahh, well, sort of..! I'm not exactly choosing to forget right now...