He would've been farther still if he hadn't come back to Goldenrod when he did.

[When he was gone, and they all started disappearing in a swarm—Yanagi, Yukimura, Sanada, Niou. When he'd cracked, sent those frantic texts, begged insisted that their junior come back, come home.

Except that's not really helping with the current situation, is it?]

It's not such a bad thing, letting him learn to outgrow us. We always knew he'd have to, sooner or later.