"I knew enough," comes a laconic answer. He knew that she was a kid, scared and alone, and injured after weathering three days of terrible storm by herself, outside with no shelter.

What else could anyone possibly need to know?

It definitely would have been more difficult and potentially dangerous in the dark, at the same time, it wasn't too bad only because they still succeeded. He bets Senku wouldn't be saying this if Maddy had died overnight.

And they had no idea which would happen when they were making that decision.

"We got lucky," he just says instead.