[Oh, god, right, other people have parents. Does Haruhi's father know his child is messing around in the cognitive world? Did he put Haruhi up to it? Is this-- is this like when he used to sit in Rei's dorm room and help her bandage the wounds she couldn't reach on her own? Is that what's happening? They're letting this round of test subjects look after each other?]

[He sits up, taking the water and the pills, looking more frightened and less soul-crushingly humiliated.]

What does-- what project is this? I thought NERV disbanded entirely but...

[But Haruhi is a classmate, so did he get sent here on purpose? Toji had been like that. Oh, god.]

Um, and I don't... I shouldn't eat yet. I usually throw up if I try to eat after summoning my persona.