[ It’s reassuring, even if Koujaku isn’t wholly convinced—but that could just be his sanity struggling to emerge. It happens, even when he’s so deeply soused as he is right now. ]

You’re…right. Gotta stick together. That’s it. [ His lower lip trembles in remembrance of how he’d tried to do just that before his friends from home went poof. And then came back with a German boytoy in tow.

And here he thought the funhouse was pretty bad. ]

Hey, Shin—Shin— [ Right too much effort to pronounce things ]

Thanks for—for having my back. Never got to tell you that. The back thing. Yeah.