Jin-san moves down to Emi's level, and takes him in his arms. I'm still gaping at them both like an idiot, but I shake it off, and settle a hand on Emi's shoulder.

I wish I could do more, but right now he needs to hold - and yell at - Jin-san.

Jin-san's giving me a look. One of those hangdog apologetic-please-don't-hate-me expressions, like yes I did steal the last ten cans of Enetron but we needed them, okayyyy?

"What - what happened?" I ask at last, looking from Jin-san to Kouta to the other scientist in the room. Emi's shaking under my hand, and I go down on one knee to get an arm around him, under where Jin-san's hugging him.