"Just please don't assume that I'm any smarter than that." Emi didn't want to have to become some kind of leadership figure. "I just wanna keep myself in one piece until I wake up from this, or get out, or... whatever."

"I'd like that. Going it alone sounds risky." Even if some big, tough stranger isn't the safest person in the world, he's better than whatever 'monsters' might turn out to be real.