The masked, hooded head tilts slightly. That's a position he can understand well.. even if he didn't have the power to back it up and never did. There was a duty to see to, and simply abandoning it because something else would be preferred was heartless at best.

"Besides which, even if alone we may not have the skill or power needed to challenge whatever threatens this place, as a unit surely we will." He's ... not unused to having to rely on others. He was good at precisely one thing, and that one thing would sooner or later become useful. "..Though the sooner the better."

"Yeah, and anyway these missing friends could turn up at any moment! You'd get home and they'd be all missing and then they'd be wanting you here, it'd turn into some weird little circle of coming and going."