"Someone here said they themselves had died and had been brought back to life when arriving here. I'm not sure how reliable they are, though. I imagine if someone died, they wouldn't have the sense to know if they were dead and then suddenly alive again." Kengo kept his legs folded, the dummy in his lap as he worked on it. This was certainly an old-fashioned way of doing things, but it made him wonder if maybe he should have set up something similar for Fourze. All of the testing for the battle system had always been done inside the test room of the Rabbit Hatch -- rarely on the field. Why had he never thought to be so thorough?

Kengo allowed himself to be silent for a few more moments, looking extremely uncomfortable before he allowed himself to speak again. The tense tone of his voice and the look on his face made it obvious that he was saying something he was unsure about revealing. "... I can't trust him." He'd been fighting with himself over it -- that he should accept Ryusei because the other had returned and they needed to work together, but the past couldn't be so easily forgotten.