['He,' huh? So there's someone back home that is about to die, someone incredibly important to the slightly unhinged man in front of him. At least knowing that little detail makes him a bit more sympathetic, because it sounds like he's cracking over his concern over someone that he cares about. He... well, Scott knows that he wouldn't go laughing like that, but a lot of his friends in this world are dead back home.

Kotone is--

Scott still isn't about ready to hug him or anything, because no, but he'll continue to try and be patient with him. He's trying to be better about this sort of thing, right? More of a leader, less of the person that kept on getting upset and needing others for support. Besides, he doesn't need an adult watching over him.]

Hey. [Scott starts at first, taking in a breath and slowly letting it out, trying once more to sound at least a little sympathetic to Zekarion's plight. He once thought that it was stupid to cling to something that might not be true, but hope isn't really a bad thing, right?]

I can't say that this is the case for everyone, but a couple of my friends had disappeared from this world and returned to the exact moment from when they were brought here. Like time didn't pass for them.