He can hold on to one twisting little girl, even if she's started kicking him. He grimaces but focuses on the most important thing: applying just the right pressure to get the knife out of her hand. He releases her as soon as he's done so and dances back again, trying to avoid the rush of the other two.

"He was a mess before me!" Devero protests. "I used to visit him on campus all the time, I--" He stumbles over his words there, because those are fake memories. "No. No I din't! Because none of this is real! Koumyou died on another world when Genjo was thirteen, Buttercup. The train caught him up and that's where we all met!"