"... I could help, you know. Even if they won't. I think they will, just because... I know a few of them. The change of heart for some of them seemed to be a decision of... practicality. Not moral superiority. "

Probably Niijima would never support it. But others... others would understand. "But it should be your call, in the end. Yours and, to a lesser degree, Ren's. If the timeline otherwise matches up, anyway." After all, he'd been a victim too.