I'm not sure. [He's had friends without powers too: Hori, who has since been returned, Miyamura and Ishikawa too...] But even if they don't have anything to be taken away, it's safe to say that they serve some purpose. [Brief pause; the next bit would have been more uncomfortable to think of, if not for the fact that everyone was about equal here more or less.] The people who used to live here had no powers too.
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