This news is not good news, the way that Kenzaki interprets it. His eyes go wide, and he springs to his feet. "I can't be gone! If I'm gone, then everything ends." He trips over his words, passes a hand over his face. "My proper time... so it'll be like I never left? I could be put back, and everything would go normally?"

He needs a yes. He needs a yes more than he needs to believe that he could miraculously remain by this Hajime's side.