He doesn't answer immediately, taking some time to organize his thoughts before walking him through what he'd seen, the way they'd all been isolated, his conversations with Haibara and Yuki and then his own thoughts. "I don't think genocide was the right path, but if I'd stayed... I don't think it would have ended well. I didn't have a choice but to leave.

And I don't know that I wouldn't have turned on that village either, although maybe not to the same degree. Those girls were innocent."