[Well, he would normally concede that there's a possibility that the person who told him is wrong, at the very least, it was Naegi. It doesn't even occur to Naegi to omit things, and he doesn't see why he would say something quite that traumatizing if it weren't true.

He thinks about all that for a moment, though; he's not sure how to articulate what's going through his head, but at the very least the tears seem to have stopped.]

...I think I can be all right with it, if that happens.

[His expression shifts a little when he says it, as though that hadn't even occurred to himself in so many words until it's already out there, but he keeps pressing on with it anyway.]

After all, I'm not saying that people shouldn't be held accountable for what they do - I'm saying the opposite, actually! Laws exist to try to give everyone a fair and optimal opportunity to exist in the world, and maintaining order is the best way to ensure that even the ordinary can excel, if they're willing to work for it; those who disrupt that order deserve to be punished for what they've done!

That...that goes for myself as well; if I die, then it's something I should be able to accept, after everything that's happened.