[Atsushi, too, has lost a lot - but more in coming here than before. Still, the opportunities he's gotten and the progress he's made with his life here have been such that he'd have a hard time picking whether to stay or go back to his old life, even if he was given such a choice.

He's really glad that he's never been given that choice.

He's also glad to see Thor smiling. The words don't feel like a lie, and that makes Atsushi feel better about the maybe-wrong-and-rude things he said before.]

It's always darkest before the dawn - isn't that what they say?

This is dawn already. We just have to wait for full daylight a little longer.