[Their fingers entwine, and even though that question hits like a brick, it's such a stark reminder of why they're partners. Why they're a team, and why Yu leans so much on the other boy. However else he may act or seem, Yosuke is one of the most dependable people he knows, and that's one of the most important things in the world, to him, right now.

Still. It takes him a minute to find an answer to the question.]

Angry. Sad. Just because he's better...it doesn't make everything that happened go away.

[And yet, they had both said so much, too. There's been so much, and the feelings are all so tangled and tied up. None of it is simple at all.]

But I don't want to feel that way forever. I don't want any of us to.

[Him, Yosuke, Mikey. Other friends like Scott and Kotone. None of them deserve to be trapped in this forever.]