[i hope so, he doesn't say. hope gets nowhere. hope is a prayer, is a wish. helena's wording, that they will, is a promise, is a threat, it's concrete and if it falls through then it hurts, it doesn't have the careful fall that "hope" does but subaru likes it better that way, because being caught by "maybe"s only lasts so long.]

You'll hear them run up to you with the biggest, tightest hug, [he says instead,] and they won't wanna let you go no matter what. But you wouldn't anyway.

[no more than subaru would let them go, even if at some point he'd have to. for their sake, for the others' who'd like to see them again too. they have so many people who like them, and so many people that they like. subaru won't be too selfish.]

We can't let 'em apologize though. S'not their fault.