Your return to Yongen-Jaya had already stirred up more memories than you expected. After a year away, your old home remained unchanged—yet the people within them had grown. Futaba, especially, had spent those years buried in research, studying cognitive psience at university while continuing the work inspired by her mother’s legacy. So when you finally walked through Leblanc’s door again, it was the moment she’d been waiting for to share everything—with you and you alone together.