[Neku's quiet for a long few moments as he thinks it over. He has no evidence, no reason to trust that what Joshua's saying is true. Not with all that he was put through.]

[And yet...]

... Trust your partner, right?

[It's the one thing he'd learned, over and over again. Things always seemed to get better when he could face things with someone else, instead of against them. It's still... difficult, to say the least. But there's something. And he can't let go of that one simple phrase.]