[It takes a moment of thought at what Hajime says. It's not as simple as getting magic powers, and yet, it really was. It hurt at first- it was the most painful thing that he remembers since his leg breaking, but it always is when you face your true inner self.]

Neither did we. We wandered into the metaverse and our own shadows reached out to us. Told us to stand up for ourselves and not take the world sitting down. It's because we had never listened to ourselves to know that it existed there.

[Those magic powers were just a manifestation of themselves, power brought about because of the belief they had in themselves, and in their friends.]

That's all it is. A mask you wear.

[He wishes he had the app to take them in right now, to test him, show him that he has it in himself- that anyone should be able to awaken their persona. But it's gone now. There's no way to enter it accessible to them.]

And since all that shit's gone, the best thing we can do in the meantime is hold to our ideals and defend those who can't be defended. [So... Hajime-] You in or not?