Ryoji doesn't answer right away, looking away again and pondering how to answer and if he really wants to. But he supposes he does owe the other Ryoji honesty and straightforwardness about what he saw back home.

"What the letters say seems to be true. All remaining plants and insects and still smaller things are gone, now. It's... just a husk. And there is nothing left beyond the planet, either. The stars are all gone, and there is nothing else left out there that I could detect...." He sighs and shakes his head. "I had been ready to rest. To let Nyx leave to wander the stars again, but... there was no point because there was nothing to wander through."