I see, that's no good. But I'm sure they are all just waiting for you at home, so it's not as if you will never see them again.

[She's not the only optimistic one.]

In the meantime you can make new friends here you would have never met otherwise, right? So no need to feel lonely.

[Ha-ha-ha, sure. But from experience he knows humans like to think that they aren't alone just because they have many people around them that talk to them, very few realize that it can still be lonely that way. Manta himself didn't realize that his so called friends weren't really friends and that he was alone until Ryu beat him, and Manta was so intelligent... So Yoh assumes it will be the same with everyone else.]