This was so maddening.  These damned automatic skips and things that the game was making her do.  She hated that loss of agency.  That feeling of not being in control of her own body.  As she and Aika met up again and looked over the map, she gave her friend a frustrated smile.  Then Aika spoke and Joy sighed with relief, "Thank God.  I didn't know if we'd ever get control of ourselves back, even to talk after...after that thing last night."<br/><br/>"A...A..."  She grimaced.  She was trying to say the name of the person who was in Aika, not Aika herself.  But she couldn't.  She just couldn't get anything more than the first sound out.  "Aika," she said at last, giving up for the moment, "I...I'm pretty freaked out by this.  What happens if we lose in a stage?  What happens if we get a Game Over?  Or hell, even if we win?"  There wasn't any way to know, of course.  It was all rhetorical.<br/><br/>She shook her head, "I'm...you know more about this game series and everything here than I do.  I...I don't know what to do next.  Yuyu's dad, which we should try to find out if he's got a name at some point because just calling him "Yuyu's Dad" is going to get old.  Anyway, when he said that any of these assholes could use a magatama to open a gate to hell...that freaked me out.  But I know we have some time too...so...what should we do?  Go after one of them?  Train up?  Work...I guess getting some resources or items could help..."<br/><br/>"Sorry.  I'm all over the place, I know.  I'm pretty freaked out.  How are you holding up?"