[It might have been easy to run away, sure. It still feels like she could forget being Kayamori Ruka and live as somebody else. But how can she ever let that fear be the centerpiece for what drives her? How, when she thinks of those people who have become husks and lost their drive to chase after their happiness, their joy, and bites her tongue in frustration when it crosses her mind?

She can't leave the people of this city out on a lurch like that.]

You make it sound like you want to elope... [...ha, now that she's struck that thought,] Actually, maybe we are, just that we're helping people while doing it at the same time.