There's a whisper of a smirk in his expression. "Yeah. If only." There is something else that's on Makoto's mind. "Hey, by the way, what happened on...?" He trails off, not sure if he should bring up the date. Really it was probably not fair to ask Shinji how he survived, but Makoto wanted to know. Maybe it was morbid curiosity to know if he could have prevented Shinji's death himself.