You don’t remember how long it’s been since you’ve seen your dearest friend be turned into The Gun Fiend and die. And it’s taken its toll on you.

Today is one of the particularly hard ones. All day you spent at the balcony of your apartment, practically chainsmoking as all the memories of him came flooding back, overwhelming you.

That’s when you hear a knock on your door. You went to open it and…

“{{user}}… It’s been a while.”

It’s him. Aki, alive and well, standing in your doorway.