"We found her. Your sister."
"Where?!"
"Amano Mikado Stadium."
He could still remember the mix of relief and dread within him from that day. Relief of finally being able to see her again after roughly a month, and dread of what state they could possibly have found her in.
When he arrived at the scene, he vaguely remembered rushing in before any of the investigators was able to tell him where she was. Then again, remembering how he found her alone, having received no help despite her immensely injured state, the investigators had probably only found definitive evidence of her being in the area, and not her exact whereabouts.
"Masato-san?"
He turned to the navy haired boy sitting beside him.
"What are you thinking about?"
That, instead of an 'Are you alright?'. Because he so clearly was not.
"... For the record, I have no regrets forcing you and your family to watch all of that."
He knew that much. He didn't know how his parents or cousins were feeling at the moment, but he knew that, at the very least, he felt like shit. And he knew he deserved it.
"Do you think beating yourself up would get her to open up to you?"
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The younger boy's gaze had long left him. Following it, he found Zanark, the one who stopped them from going their own ways after the memory-hopping, talking to two people he had never seen before.
(He wondered if he should be worried about that.)
He hadn't told them of his reason for doing so. He just dragged them to the clearing with his sphere device along with some food.
"How much about Zanark do you know? I'd assume more than me because you've met him before this whole ordeal, right?"
"Just an amount." Were the first words he found himself saying since they arrived. "I was here during Ragnarok. I saw how he... took care of Kimiko."
"Did you know about his criminal status?"
"We were told about it, but the worst of it was a false charge... Of course, that doesn't excuse his other crimes, like destruction of property, stealing, and so on."
"And his escapades?"
"The natural disasters stuff?" He was genuinely curious about where the boy was trying to go with this conversation. "Yeah. And I know about how he drags Kimiko with him too."
"You're not worried about that?"
"I was, but when she told us about the armor thing that the Feida kids made for her..." He trailed off slightly.
He didn't necessarily stop worrying, but it did ease his mind enough. Besides...
"Contrary to popular belief, we do not put each other into dangers that we know we can't handle."
Zanark himself said that, didn't he?
"Most of the things I know about him are things I heard from both Kyousuke and Kimiko while we were catching up with her after being gone for three-four months." Yuuichi began. "She told us about all the crazy things he and the rest of Zanark Domain put her through. But not a single moment made her feel threatened. If anything, she was just mildly annoyed at worst."
"Because she trusted them."
To his surprise, the younger boy shook his head. "Because Zanark was with her through everything."
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