It occurred to Minato somewhere in between that his friends might not have heard about the place where he'd been, and he at last mumbled something while he was still trembling and trying to stop sobbing.

"...Haven West. But it doesn't make sense- why would you all be somewhere else then?" His thoughts were getting hazy again from thinking too hard, although it looked like he was starting to question what he was seeing in front of him. It just didn't fit what he knew of the Yao Corporation to actually separate its test subjects, no matter what the reason...could he actually believe that what he'd thought before was true and not just some desperate belief that he had actually escaped?