"Kid, donchu know not to believe everythin' you see?" Beat gave Gene a raised eyebrow in return and then had to resist the urge to completely muss his hair up. Kids shouldn't think about straightening their hair out. They were supposed to be unruly and out there scraping their knees and climbing trees (even if Shibuya didn't exactly have trees to climb, the point still stood). It rubbed Beat the wrong way to see kids being too much like adults.

"And I ain't a ghost 'cause I ain't perma-dead, but I ain't really alive neither. Been stuck like this for almost two years now, yo. And I don' wanna freak you out or nothin' so I ain't gonna do my whacko party trick unless you wanna see proof."