[A version of Akira - a version of his Akira. Timelines. It's not just a could-have-been, not just a maybe that wasn't.

It makes it infinitely worse.

It's one thing to know intellectually that in an infinite number of branching timelines and outcomes, every conceivable scenario will occur. It's another thing entirely to be forced to confront that idea as a reality. Minato knows he will never fully understand what his lovers went through in that mall, and he isn't even completely certain that's what happened in this vision...]

Won't go through that again. Won't-- Won't let it happen.

[Minato knows that's not within his power. He doesn't make promises he won't keep...but he's desperate.]