[Eight isn't willing to give up on this. If he can just get some hint, some clue, something to his friend Marina when he returns to his world...]

Maybe there's some...clue or something in your training? Or in the way Shikigami work? Or...I don't know, some aspect of the sorcery?

I-I wasn't the only one, if...if I just go back to my friends with something, we could save thousands of Octolings-

[He closes his eyes. OK, deep breaths, calm down, under control, don't freak out any more than you have already. This is so much already, it'll probably be so much more...]