"Oh... I was in Deerington too, though I don't think it was a year... it certainly felt like an eternity in that hell, I'll say that much. So, one hellhole to another then, or are you one of those people where Deerington and whatever this place is called are an upgrade from your home world?"

Just because Ritsuka was also a part of that group of "this hell on earth was better than the hell on earth he came from" didn't mean he had to LIKE being here.