Yusuke spun around as he heard a familiar voice, one that was far more welcoming than the one he’d just heard. Haru! No, here it would be more pertinent to refer to her by her codename as well, since he knew it at this point. “Noir!” He responded, and while his expression was hidden behind his mask, the relief in his tone and posture was evident as she came into view and he hurried over to meet her part way.

Arms thrown out in a gesture of joy, he continued. “Though I know this situation is strange and far from ideal, it is truly a relief to see you. I thought I had been pulled into this alone.” Like when he arrived in Aterat, only worse since that man was here and it seemed like his other self was still under his influence. It felt far too similar to what he’d been trapped in, and it set him more than a little off-balance to be confronted with it again after all this time.

Which… Admittedly made him wonder what Noir had arrived here to find herself, if her reaction to seeing him was anything to go by. “I don’t know what this horrid place is, but it reminds me somewhat of the metaverse… Did you come to be here through a mirror as well?”