"Yes," Hakkai says. "You can let him go." Untying him might help to dispel whatever nightmare he's seeing -- and, Hakkai's certain, even if Gojyo tries to run or fight again, he's in no shape to give Hakkai trouble like this.

Sapporo. Near his shrine? He looks down at Gojyo's frantic, vague-eyed face. He'd checked there. He'd checked more than once, but from what he's saying (inside people?) perhaps he wouldn't have even if that were whatever area he'd been in.

"We don't need to run," he said quietly to Gojyo, and let a little bit of that protective chill seep from his expression into his voice. "No one is taking either of us anywhere."