Where'd the author dude get all those ideas? It don't seem like all bullshit. Like the Dormouse likin' treacle and all.

_{[To anyone else, hearing Alice didn't make a great escape would be a considerable blow to one's hopes, and it is, but Ryuji's resiliently optimistic if anything. Hopelessly so, some might say.]}

But with your memories back, that must mean you're back to lookin' for a way home, yeah? You must have more of an inside's perspective than anyone. With you workin' with us, we can't lose.

_{[There's that optimism again.]}