The fear was hard to miss on Roxas, and Riku raised his eyebrows. He supposed if he had asked a couple killer questions, the Nobody was certainly entitled to the same. Riku paused, however. That means the last time Paixao saw me, I knew Xemnas was gone. So maybe I don’t remember because it was a future me? He had to consider how to explain this, since he, or perhaps better-said, Ansem, actually had defeated Roxas. Though he’d technically left the Organization. Roxas’ll need to be told that, soon.

But as Kairi began to speak, the tension he felt slowly ebbed and he smiled. She always knows the right thing to say. “Maybe the best way to say it would’ve been, ‘we didn’t have enemies in the Organization anymore.’”