[Maybe it's some kind of illusion. This place runs on magic, after all. He thought he saw a portrait of Nagisa in the Roost once, but it turned out to be somebody who looked like him. Thought he saw familiar faces from home at the arcade two months ago, too, and even spoke to Rinne there, but those were also mere illusions. Even if the Rinne he spoke to was real, he wasn't back permanently. He's still a statue, just like Leo is now.

So for someone from Leo's unit to show up, when no one from ES has been kidnapped here in over a year... why, it just doesn't make any sense. But the Tsukasa lookalike addresses him by name, and his stomach drops, eyes growing wider. No, no, this can't be right. And yet this is him, isn't it?

He's at a total loss, up until Tsukasa comments on his outfit. That snaps him out of his daze somewhat, causing him to lower the arm brandishing his "magic wand" and cross both arms across his chest for modesty (not that he isn't still showing a ton of skin elsewhere).]

A "cute costume," what else? Same as you're wearing!

[Said defensively.]

But never mind that. Tsukasa-kun...

[He swallows around the sudden lump that forms in his throat. Too much—it's too much to have something like this happen when he hasn't seen the others from ES in over a year, when he thought he never would again, when Leo just disappeared. How could he even begin to explain?]

Tsukasa-kun... before you woke up, what do you remember last?