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Yeah. We really do.

[He cares about all of them, and he knows they care about him too. He knows he would worry endlessly if they were here, especially if any of his non-Persona user friends showed up, but at the same time, he can't help but miss them.]

The thieves are my best friends.

[ Lupin watches him for a few seconds. Akira is fairly quiet; he doesn't think he's ever heard him make such a bold statement, and that only drives home how much the other thieves matter to him. He wishes he could comfort him better, but the fact of the matter is that he simply doesn't know what happened. There's so much about this place that's out of his control, out of the range of his information-gathering, out of reach, and he respects Akira too much to feed him an empty reassurance on Yusuke's whereabouts. ]

... Don't give up on him. He's strong. I'm sure the phantom thieves have gotten out of tighter pinches before.

...Yeah, he is.

[In more ways than one. Yusuke is physically very strong, one of their strongest, but he's also emotionally tough, to have dealt with all he did before they met, and after. With all he's been through, he never stopped being him.]

Wherever he is... he's probably doing an abstract landscape painting of it right now.

[It's easier to think of him that way, even if they don't really know. Yusuke out there somewhere, painting, as it should be.]

[ the comment gets a little laugh out of Lupin. ]

I bet he is. [ a soft smile, slightly bittersweet. ] I never did get to see any of his artwork.

That's too bad.

[He's sincere when he says it, and not only because Yusuke is his friend.]

It's abstract, but... I always understand the feelings he's trying to convey.

I get it. To be honest, I like that kind of artwork more than the usual portraits and landscapes.

[ of course, Lupin's imagining something closer to impressionism or romanticism than the true abstract art Yusuke does - it hasn't really been "invented" yet in Europe in his time. ]

[Akira doesn't know enough about art history to correct him, so he just nods in agreement.]

Hopefully one day you'll get to see it.

[He'll think like that. That he'll see Yusuke again, that maybe even Lupin will get to see him again. He won't get bogged down in the thoughts about what could have happened.]

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