And... god. He reaches up to touch Ren's face, with a hand that trembles just a bit. Ren would never have got it. "You haven't figured it out, huh?

"Niijima's Palace is ... odd, in several ways. Not least in its clarity of thought. In how the cognitions around the place aren't distorted. They look like ordinary people. And"—and finally, he can't meet Ren's eyes and looks away—

"And in its proximity to the central police station."