[Ah, it's like looking into a mirror. A surly teenager with dyed hair mirror, and not actually looking since they were speaking. Nonetheless it's all things Botan had said to herself before, barring that she isn't a spirit since that is unmistakably what she was in her own world. The response time is unsurprising, it wouldn't have been a shock if Lena had never directly come back to the message or taken up the offer. The timing is equally unsurprising since a certain recurring weekend had just happened, and since Lena was new to it...]

"I don't really exist, I'm not a real person, I'm not anything, I don't matter, I will just fade away and be forgotten in the end."

Those are the sorts of things I would end up saying to my friends myself. It's a bleak outlook but ultimately the truth for my fate, I'm not even allowed to go to the afterlife, you know?

But for a moment, humor me if you will, imagine if the person dearest to you was saying that about themselves. What would you have to say then? Without saying anything harsh about yourself in the process, just focus completely on them. You wouldn't agree with what they're saying, would you? "Yes, that's right, you're not anything, you don't matter."

That would be cruel, unfair, untrue, right?