[The thing is, he doesn't want to talk. He doesn't want to bring up his inner thoughts about the entire thing for fact that it would disrupt this family unit.

But he has a feeling that Lightning is not going to be as dismissive about it as he wants her to be.]

... Seeing Machina there, with similar issues to you, to Hope...

[Etro, this feels so stupid.]

Seeing him and Hope just automatically want to help each other. I know I'll never be that person, to any of you. I'll never understand what all of you go through because I'm not one of you.