[Half an hour gives him enough time to try and puzzle this all out. It's not like he has anything else to do, may as well try to figure things out on his own, right? Those Super High School Level Detective instincts never sleep.]
[There was nothing stopping him from waking Kaede up. Sure, he can't get into her room, but she's not as heavy of a sleeper as Shuichi is. If he'd knocked on her door loud enough, she would have woken up. And he's fairly sure the leader would have no qualms whatsoever with doing something like that, even if it was the middle of the night and therefore kinda rude to go banging on people's doors.]
[So since Kaede isn't here, Shuichi can only assume that was intentional. Kokichi chose not to wake her up, because...]
[Because...]
[Because she would have asked questions? Yeah...yeah, she would definitely try and make him talk about it, he had gone to her first. He probably didn't want to deal with that, which means...oh.]
[Oh.]
[Sure, Kokichi wouldn't want to talk about any of his nightmares, and he could have always lied his way around Kaede's questions, but...she's an unpredictable force of nature. There's always a slim chance she could have forced him to talk about it somehow. He must have wanted to avoid that at all costs, which means his nightmare must have been something really bad. Something that he wouldn't want Kaede to know, but something he felt safe going to Shuichi about.]
[And there's only one thing Shuichi can think of that fits that description: The Gore Square Encounter.]
[Yeah...that had definitely disturbed Kokichi and messed him up, enough that the memory of it could send him running to a friend for comfort like a frightened child. It might even explain why he's attached himself to the detective like a baby koala, as opposed to just curling up at his side.]
[Yeah...that must be what happened. It's the only theory that makes any sense to Shuichi. And it just makes him all the more determined to wait patiently for Kokichi to wake up on his own.]
A-ah! [...though, when he finally does, he manages to startle Shuichi in the process. He'd been so lost in his thoughts that he hadn't realized what Kokichi's shifting meant. He hadn't noticed the leader's eyes start to open, had completely missed the sleepy blinking...it's the sharp inhale that finally gets his attention, jolting him out of his musings.] Um...y-yeah, it's me, Oma-kun.
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[There was nothing stopping him from waking Kaede up. Sure, he can't get into her room, but she's not as heavy of a sleeper as Shuichi is. If he'd knocked on her door loud enough, she would have woken up. And he's fairly sure the leader would have no qualms whatsoever with doing something like that, even if it was the middle of the night and therefore kinda rude to go banging on people's doors.]
[So since Kaede isn't here, Shuichi can only assume that was intentional. Kokichi chose not to wake her up, because...]
[Because...]
[Because she would have asked questions? Yeah...yeah, she would definitely try and make him talk about it, he had gone to her first. He probably didn't want to deal with that, which means...oh.]
[Oh.]
[Sure, Kokichi wouldn't want to talk about any of his nightmares, and he could have always lied his way around Kaede's questions, but...she's an unpredictable force of nature. There's always a slim chance she could have forced him to talk about it somehow. He must have wanted to avoid that at all costs, which means his nightmare must have been something really bad. Something that he wouldn't want Kaede to know, but something he felt safe going to Shuichi about.]
[And there's only one thing Shuichi can think of that fits that description: The Gore Square Encounter.]
[Yeah...that had definitely disturbed Kokichi and messed him up, enough that the memory of it could send him running to a friend for comfort like a frightened child. It might even explain why he's attached himself to the detective like a baby koala, as opposed to just curling up at his side.]
[Yeah...that must be what happened. It's the only theory that makes any sense to Shuichi. And it just makes him all the more determined to wait patiently for Kokichi to wake up on his own.]
A-ah! [...though, when he finally does, he manages to startle Shuichi in the process. He'd been so lost in his thoughts that he hadn't realized what Kokichi's shifting meant. He hadn't noticed the leader's eyes start to open, had completely missed the sleepy blinking...it's the sharp inhale that finally gets his attention, jolting him out of his musings.] Um...y-yeah, it's me, Oma-kun.