User blog comment:Seieireppa/God Eater: Reverie for a Dying Star, chapter 9: Tragedy/@comment-14812118-20150802153710/@comment-1419424-20150802155902

Where did I say this was his "first reaction," Bal?

And one of the reasons he makes these recordings at all is to keep himself sane in a world where his little group of people are the only humans left. To lessen the impact of that solitude, he makes these recordings, to give himself that beacon of stability, that sense of normalcy.