Once Doyle was outside, everybody turned to Nakadai.
"What did you just do?" Emeri asked him.
"Only giving him some time to think." Nakadai replied.
"What's to think about?"
"Whether he wants to know his past or not." Nakadai reasoned.
"Makes sense." Yukito agreed, "We all have things in our past that we'd rather not remember. He may be afraid for what he'll find out."
"Plus, how do you think he feels?" Nakadai added, "For a long time, he had no idea he had any living relative. By now he had grown accustomed to just that. Meeting with his family is like meeting with strangers to him now."
"You think that's why he's taken aback?" Ryouga asked.
Ranru turned to look at the door through which Doyle had left, and said: "That's understandable."
"How can you of all people say that?" Ryouga wondered, "He didn't particularly treat you quite well."
"I think this is something you will never understand." Nakadai replied.
Suddenly, Yatsudenwani came in: "What's all the noise about? Can't a man sleep in this house anymore?"
"We think we may have found Doyle's relatives." Yukito explained.
"That's great!" Yatsudenwani sounded happy, "He will leave us soon then?"
"How dare you to say such a thing?" Ranru snapped at him.
Realizing he made her angry, Yatsudenwani became really nervous: "I'm sorry, Ranru-sama! I didn't mean to say anything bad! I..."
He kept raving on like this for a while, until he finally admitted: "... and he scares me to death!"
"He's not scary." Mai insisted, "A little dumb, maybe, but not scary."
"Now, Mai-chan, it's not polite to call people dumb." Ryouga said.
"Where is he now anyway?" Yatsudewani asked.
"He's afraid to meet with his relatives." Yukito answered, "So we left him to think about it."
Yatsudewani whined: "Oooh... if only you people could get to know them better before letting him meet them..."
"That's it!" Ranru suddenly figured, and continued once she had everyone's attention, "Why won't we go meet with his family now? This way, when we know them, we tell Akakuro-kun about them, so he will have no reason to be afraid anymore."
"Sounds like a great idea." Ryouga agreed.
"If it could help him, we should do it." Yukito said.
Meanwhile, Doyle was having a conversation of his own with Roxton. They were to be found close to the harbor, where they both believed that not many people would see them, nor would hear them talk. They figured it would look weird if they see a man talking to a wristband that has a mouth. Also, in here there may not be anyone who would recognize his face.
"Do you really believe they want us gone?" Roxton asked.
"Why else would that Mai-girl be so happy?" Doyle reasoned.
"Because she could help you? Maybe?" Roxton replied.
Doyle sighed: "Then what about the way she insisted us to go? Or ho anyone else insisted?"
"I don't know." Roxton answered, "I know very little about how humans think."
"Wish I knew how Ranru really thinks." Doyle whispered.
"Why?"
"I don't know." Doyle moaned, "There's something about her that makes want to know."
"She is the only one who seems to understand you." Roxton remarked, "Which can't be said about everyone else. That Nakadai-character even appears to be the only one trying."
"I'm not sure we did the right thing to start making friends with Ranru." Doyle said, "Being a friend of hers means to be friends with her gang."
"And you don't feel comfortable with the gang, do you?"
"Do you?" Doyle asked.
"I don't know." Roxton replied, "Being stuck with you has helped me getting used to human presence. What's one more or less?"
"It means a whole lot." Doyle answered, "It was a hard decision to make when I decided to make friends with Ranru. Especially since the only form of human company I've known is that of a mad man."
"And Ranru wasn't in any like him, was he?"
"No." Doyle replied, "She seemed like a nice person to know and easy to handle. But then all of her friends came along. Getting to know one of them at a time, in time maybe even two at a time. But all eleven at once? Then they feel I must meet with people who may claim to know me better than I even know myself... This is just too much for me to bear."
"Those people have never been through even half of what we're going through, have they?"
"No." Doyle sounded tense when he said this, "How could they even begin to think they understand me? Or even think they know what's best for me?"
"And why is all this about you?" Roxton suddenly started, "You're not alone on this world!"
Doyle snorted: "Another thing! Only when it fits best in the situation, they stop pretending you don't exist. They'd do everything to help me, and forget that you are a part of me."
"Indeed." Roxton agreed, "Glad you noticed."
For a moment it was quiet between the two. Then Roxton talked again: "So what do you wanna do now?"
"Obviously we can't return to their place now. Or else they'd start all over again."
"But you can't stay away from them either." Roxton reminded him.
"Maybe." was all Doyle said.