If that's what you want...then do it. This will be all over soon enough. That man...he's quite powerful. He's done this before, over and over again...it's hardly as if anything the townspeople will do will change his tune.

[Just give up. Just lay down, and allow the world to run you over. That's Howard's view. There's no point in exerting any effort to avert a fate which is already here.]

Hopefully, Atsushi, we'll go home after this all blows over... [His mouth twists into a sad frown.] I...I just want to go home...