You've...really never had a friend before Hope's Peak, Ishimaru-kun? [ Ishimaru-kun is a little odd...okay, he's really odd, but that sounds a little extreme, Naegi thinks. No wonder Ishimaru had completely shut down after Oowada's death. Building up a friendship like that only for Monobear to utterly destroy it... ]

I'm grateful that I met you, too. You and all the others; it probably goes without saying that it was the only good thing to come out of... everything that happened back there.