[Maes is a good adult who has a lot of faith in them... Kou would appreciate it if he knew that. Either way, for now he nods, stretching a bit and planting the rest of the trash he'd picked up into a bag.]

Yeah, well. True enough. We're here now, so we may as well do the best with what we've got.

It's not like...we can just ignore it if people are honestly suffering, after all.

[He's got Hero Syndrome no matter how he pretends otherwise, so there was never any chance he would do anything but help out.]