Bullshit. It's never too late to change something.

[The answer comes so quickly and so forcefully, it could almost be that unnatural fury again; but that's not an angry look on Junpei's face. Just irritated, maybe bull-headed--and very, very certain. Not the happy certainty of platitude, but the grim "yeah, I went toe-to-toe with some fuckin' Reavers, you want to tell me again they're not real?" sureness of experience.]

Nine years or nine centuries, Ardyn. You can take my word for that.