[Maybe it's because he's known her for over a year now, or maybe it's just the fact that he's been surrounded by other teenagers that constantly tell him that 'they're fine' when the opposite had been true over and over again. But he doesn't believe her, with Scott continuing to frown at her with that deep worried face. He's pretty sure that she's not being as fully unaffected about things as she pretends to be and even though Ange probably wants to be left alone, he wants to do what he can anyway.

They've been friends for a long time now, especially in terms of this world with people coming and going all the time. He's glad she's here, just like how he's glad that Kotone and his other friends are still in Aldrip.]

I-I know things are going back to normal. [At least for this place. There's still weird stuff happening, but the infection is definitely gone at least.] But... but those things still happened, Ange. I almost killed you. I... you don't have to pretend that everything's fine when it's not.

[He shakes his head, trying to gather his thoughts and words without being too emotional about it. But guess he'll always be a little more outwardly expressive about this sort of thing, especially compared to her.

Almost silently.] I still had my hand around your neck.