...If it's a choice you have to make, and whatever you do brings misfortune upon your friends, that's futility, isn't it?

[ That is, there's no fighting it, no matter how long John tries to stall in this place. And if the choice has already been made, in the future, then that is set in stone; John should be able to rest easy knowing that it no longer rests on his shoulders to make an impossible choice and pull the proverbial trigger.

Fate deems such the way of the universe. For Ryoji, that's a comfort. Why do people not find peace in fate? ]