A dumbass decision, huh. "Honestly, if you can pull him back before November happens, if things are happening in much the same way... there are probably ways out of his situation. I didn't get that chance, but if I've learned anything, spending time with the Phantoms... it's that you're all dumbasses, and I was Lord King of Dumbass Island for not realizing you were the best thing that ever happened to me."

He smiled, a little apologetically. "Like I said, there's a lot of details left out. I was in a place not unlike this one for a year and a half. Ran into Ren there, and Sumire, and Futaba, and... Ann. They pulled me out of a very... bad. Place, mentally. As for the going to Hell... that was by choice. In a lot of ways, it's not all that much worse than the living world. In a few very specific ways, it's much, much worse. But we're... working on that. On the plus side, got a home and a family that actually gave a shit. Got a life. So... more than a fair trade, in my opinion."