[It has been nice, hearing Shun go from hurting and angry to mostly neutral, although it's also seemed like every time he says something new about the Synchro dimension, it's something that makes it even worse. Other than the D-Wheels. But he does wonder how long that neutral tone with last, especially once Academia comes up again.

It's also been interesting hearing about all the times Shun seemed to have used his Duel Monsters to physically help people. He had said once that some of their holograms could do real damage, but he hadn't expected it to be quite as complex as what Shun's been describing here.

And good on the council, but it shouldn't have taken something like that for them to actually look after their people.

And there's the moment he'd been waiting for, when this would start being painful again. He was hoping it wasn't going to show up, but if there's one thing he's learned from what Shun has told him, it's that he never seems able to catch a break. Ren lightly squeezes his hand again. Even if Shun hasn't seemed to care the other times, he wants to feel like he's doing something.]

It sounds like you were lucky you woke up anywhere, instead of between dimensions. And better there than Fusion if you were separated again?

[Although that probably depends on whether it had gotten better or worse. He's not sure he wants to ask that.]