We wanted to be your team! [ Yeah, Akira's smart, but he doesn't hold a candle to Futaba. He's not as brave as Ryuji, he's not as kind as Haru, he's not any number of things that his teammates exhibit better than him, but he's still part of the team. ]

If dying is the thing you had control over, then that means we could have helped you earlier. You could have let us.