Looking up, Neku finally spotted the other boy just a few feet away. He was really here, after everything that had happened. Neku reached up out of habit to adjust his headphones and then remembered they weren't there, so he let his hands drop. "Hey," he answered, it was about all he could say.

It was hard to make eye contact. Despite still trusting Joshua and listening to his advice and information, it was still difficult for Neku to forgive all that the other had done to him. But he hoped that maybe by seeing him again now, that he could forgive him in time. It's what was right, after all.

"How'd someone like you end up in a place like this?" he finally asked.