Ah, sorry, I call him Partner all the time and he said I still could while he uses the Kingpin name for everyone else. [Look, he's just really set in his ways when it comes to Souji. He takes the glasses as he speaks.] Well, yeah, that's because he is.

A friend, I mean. He's all those things. There's no... uh, mask for him to be absorbed into? Partner doesn't do that with the Shadows. We all just destroy them.

[He scratches his cheek lightly in thought with the edge of his glasses, but then he pockets them and rests his elbows on the table.]

Is that what Joker does? He absorbs Shadows? What for?