"And I couldn't tell you why, either." He sighs out. "Other than not getting why this place would-"

He stops, as the weight of this situation slams into him. He's in a strange place, with rules he doesn't understand. That, he can adapt to. But what trips up his brain is the fact that somehow, Shinji is here too.

"...Why this place would make me hallucinate about family. Or my best friends."

He narrows his eyes as he says that, trying to figure out if there's some way to show this is all real.