[... Oh. Wait. Has he made it sound worse than it was? It was meant to be a joke, but maybe he took it too far. Yu pauses and shakes his head.]

It-- wasn't as bad as it sounds.

[There's actually some fondness in his tone when he goes on about this. Inaba has become like home to him, much more than Tokyo ever was, and the Dojima family...really did become his family. There's something nostalgic about thinking back on it like this.]

My parents went abroad for a year, and they had me stay with my uncle while they were gone. The room they put me up in had been used for storage.

[Oh, boy, he really does miss them a lot, doesn't he. It comes out very consciously at moments like this.]