"Yet. We are starting over from the beginning but I know I can depend on you to help rebuild Shinra yet again." As long as he survived and had the Turks by his side he knew that it wasn't impossible. He didn't have to ask if Reno was going to stay with him, after the first time he had made the offer he knew that they weren't going anywhere.

"I think I'll pass on the playground play date but I know what you mean. There aren't the same expectations." And he wasn't tied to the legacy that his father had left him- he could make Shinra his own now without that past.