[He wished he could tell her why he was so emotional, but even for someone as old as he is compared to her it would be devastating. He knows that she wouldn't change her decision. Bringing back his other father had been something that she and his father had discussed long before he'd been born. It still didn't make it hurt any less. Everything was so fresh in his mind, even the words that she had asked them to pass on to him when he awoke.]
Ah... sorry... everything's just... [It was too much, really, in an almost humorous way. He was left to carry on the burden of knowing what would happen to this precious person all on his own. Ai wouldn't know how to support him right now.]
Could mother... please say that again...? My name.
[He could pretend just for a moment that she remembered everything their family had been through together. Losing his father, watching the years pass while she watched his other father sleep inside his tomb. They had crossed a millennia together with Ai.]