Right. It's... well. Nothing about this is okay, even if I want to say 'okay' to that.

... Mai has to get back home. I'm from... further along than she is, somehow. She's more important than she can know, and while it'll put her through a lot of pain, she... needs to be there. Otherwise... things will go badly.

[He doesn't want to put her through it. He wishes she didn't have to, but she has to be the one who has the Forbidden Fruit so she can give it to Kouta.]