[ he just holds junpei to him as he squirms in closer, drops a kiss to the top of his head — and at least the shift in topic means he's not crying anymore, but rather staring at the wall with a puzzled frown. ]

Wait, [ he says, tilting his head a little so he can try to look at junpei, except he's mostly just looking at the top of his head, so — scratch that, then. ]

I thought she was, like, your friend, yeah? Why were you looking for her? Couldn't you just, I dunno, give her a call?

[ he's... quite genuinely asking this. because it's not adding up — he'd get looking for her as a pi if she was missing, but if all the time she'd been out there looking for a cult, then she clearly wasn't missing! ]