"Let 'em motivate ya even after they ain't around. I had to do that for decades. My old friends after we broke up, and my boy? He never loved me back. Mighta took after me but he didn't like me much." He looks to the ground, knowing how hard it is though. How much he wanted to give up. "But here for any number of reasons I actually made some new friends myself. And turns out even with 'em disappearin' I just keep goddamn makin' 'em."

That's half honest self-disparagement, half a joke.

"What's your brother like?" he asks before bringing up anything else. Because, in his opinion, Seto's shadow self was deeply wrong.