"So you are made aware of the unhappiness of your situation and not permitted to think about changing it?" That did sound like a nightmare. It was something to consider when she went back to her own reality.

"If you do come to that conclusion it would be understandable. After Makoto passed I saw him in my dreams...always out of reach." She admits to him. "I wished to return to being a mere machine at the time." She was helped out of it by her friends, some of whom were struggling with the emotions they felt when he first passed, it'd make sense if Ren decided the grief was too much for him to bear in the end.