[There's no doubt that he does take comfort in that much! As strange as the situation here is, it's still nice to see Hinata again, especially as his regular ol' self. Some things just don't change.

But sadly, the afterlife has.

Once he sees that Hinata has settled down, he drops his hand from his friend's shoulder.]

Okay... So, basically, we don't know the reasoning for it, but something changed here. For starters, we're back here, and loads more people have been arriving -- even adults. And some... weird things in general have been going on too...

[It was raining food once... once the shadows attacked... the NPCs have been acting strangely... and so on.]