I know it's impossible, but sometimes I think about if we'd met earlier. I think I would have looked up to you. [ It's a dangerous topic, but Akira says it in a careful, level voice, like there's no judgement or even real regret -- just a hypothetical that he thinks about sometimes. ]

Maybe I'd have been able to change my outfit. [ He always wondered about that, but he figured it was the trade off for being able to use about two hundred persona. ]