...Someone fell under the spell of the relic? Did he get free? Is someone helping him if not?

[He wants to help. He feels it in his bones that he has to help. It's just who he is. Except... what can he do? He wasn't able to help Bakugo in the Hobby Horse. How could he expect to help anyone else? Hell, maybe he'd just make things worse. That's all he'd done every time he'd spoken to the other boy afterwards too.

So instead he just swallows hard, choking down his urge to run off and help, and nods.]

Y-yeah. It helps to think that there's an end to hard times. A light at the end of the tunnel, as they say. It's easy to lose hope sometimes.