[There's only a couple of names he's really familiar with from Gaia. Yuna, who he knows through Tidus, and--]

Laguna? He aided us on the Lunatic Pandora, despite the dangers involved, and is fighting on the Mist Continent now. He's a courageous man; I'm not surprised he accompanied you.

[And yet, the idea that they fell at the hands of the manikins bothers Cecil greatly, far more than the idea of his best friend knocking him out for an entire cycle.]

...Why did you try to do so much on your own, Kain? I could have helped you. There might have been another way.