[Asch is quiet for a bit, considering this, though he does sit up as Guy speaks. It's... such a relief, really, knowing that the world had changed so much in so little of a time. Two years was so brief, so short, yet the entire world had been changed, flipped upside down.

He wasn't certain of what he was feeling, overall, to hear that news, but... he did know that he was so proud of his country, in a way that he hadn't felt in years.

Even if they'd done it all without him.]

...You're right. It's just... stupid, pointless paranoia. I'm overthinking everything again.

[He hugs his knees to his chest, voice lowering to a mumble. He doesn't look depressed so much as resigned.]

It used to be my dream to change the world.