[Another helpless little shrug and a bitter smile.]

I fight with my dad a lot, and my older cousin lets me stay with her when I don't want to be at home. We hadn't been fighting but he just... assumed. Didn't even call her to make sure I was there.

[He sighs and reaches up to give Faust an affectionate pat, smile becoming a little more genuine over the threat of violence.]

Ryou, though, he noticed, and uh. That's kinda why I want to tell him? I mean, honesty aside, I don't... if I go missing for good one of these days, y'know, that's a risk I'm willing to take here, but I'd want him to know what happened. I really scared him, just disappearing like that.