"And I, the man Gongenzaka, did not even realize saving was necessary until it was too late," he laments, sighing.

"...I do mean it," he adds, not yet realizing the difference in how they're pressed together. "...When I, the man Gongenzaka, was taken... ...I was 'speaking' to you, was I not? ....In those last moments..."

He doesn't think his final feeling got through. That final one was at least 'nicer' if he did but...all the fear before it...