[Shinji opens his mouth to argue, then closes it. Looks down at the ground. Arisato probably would care, because he cares about all of them. He already knows there was a memorial service for him, because of that strangeness with their timelines, and he feels bad enough about that. He tried to avoid letting anyone care about him, back then, but he'd stayed in the dorms, after all. He'd let the kid take him to a movie. He should've tried harder to push all of them away, really.

He can't even say that Arisato has other friends, ones he's closer to, because they're all dead. Goddamn it.]

It ain't like I'm tryin' to die, or anything. [Anymore, at least.] But I made these decisions a long time ago. I ain't got the right to take them back.