[You must have just lost somebody important, huh. It's not like he can't empathize with that - it's been years but he still has moments where he looks through the door expecting Ferris to come through with dango, or flips through his 'gear half-hoping for a message from Fuji about this or that. Heck, even Cobra leaving made the place a little less interesting, though that's mostly because he was fun to torment.

...But he can't just leave this be, either.]

Kind of hard to enforce that unless you know how they're leaving in the first place. Ahh, though, if you've figured that out, please, feel free to share. I bet there're a lot of folks who'd love to know.