None of this made any sense, and he could only rub the back of his neck in frustration as he tried to keep things at least a bit more lighthearted. But it…Was difficult to try and reconcile their circumstances. Crow himself had lived a whole different life, with a whole different set of people. And he remembered everything, so Aki must, too. They had basically spent most of their lives together, and that kid…
It must mean that kid was someone they would run into, too. Was there another copy of him? Probably…
And looking at Aki, while he was already struggling with it, he couldn’t imagine how she was feeling.
“Yeah…Though I’m way more worried about that kid than I am about either of us. Even in a whole other world, we can handle each other. He could be out doing anything, being a teen and all.” He frowns. “And we don’t have a quick way to get there.”
…Unless - he’d left most of that behind him, buuut…
“You…Don’t think anyone would mind if we borrowed a car, right Doctor?” He looks almost sheepish about it. Almost. But he absolutely knew how they could easily ‘creatively borrow’ a vehicle, and he’d fill it up with gas and return it! It’s an emergency anyway!
Aki looked at Crow, surprised. “You don’t think Yusaku was a hallucination?” It felt a little strange to say his name now that she wasn’t sure he was even real. “I thought that- I mean logically, it makes sense that he would be part of the hallucination too... but if it wasn’t a hallucination-”
Shaking her head, she took a deep breath. She didn’t like the idea of her mind being toyed with again, but there were other things to worry about at the moment. “Either way, first things first. We won’t be able to help anyone if we’re dead.”
“And just ‘Aki’ is fine.” She smiled despite herself, “hearing you say any term of respect is just too strange for me right now.”
When Crow mentioned taking a car she hummed thoughtfully rather than disapprovingly. “Hm. I don’t see why it would be a problem so long as we bring it back. It is an emergency after all. One minute.” Patting down her pockets, she found a pad of paper she usually used to write prescriptions and jotted down a note:
“We’re borrowing your car. If you have a problem with that call me at ###-###-####.
-Dr. Aki Izayoi”
She placed the note on the sidewalk next to a car, making sure to weigh it down with a rock. “All right. Let’s take this one.”