[ Retrospec isn't something that can be mentioned and just forgotten. It's been half a year, and he still feels as if he were stumbling through everything blind. For him, so much has happened, he'd never stopped feeling just as overwhelmed as he was the first day, and he wouldn't take it back for anything. ]

It's possible. I know people who have, and I miss them.

[ His girlfriend. Other friends he'd met along the way and now have less a reason to talk to him. A lot of friendships he'd had to start all over again. Ryoji bumps shoulders with Akira, squeezing his eyes shut against the misty spray of water and... spit? snot? it smells distinctly elephant ]

But ignorance isn't always a bad thing? Sometimes, it's just self-preservation.

[ Can't deal with the truth? Just wipe people's memories, it's fine, it's fine ]