It was just as Zack had guessed. While Neku had probably done some pretty bad stuff while he'd been brainwashed, the fact still stood that he'd been brainwashed. It happened often enough in this place that most people knew what the deal was by now and were prepared to forgive easily.

"If we're lucky, they won't make us do anything like that again," he said when the whole cleaning thing was brought up. Not that Zack had done any mopping or scrubbing in the first place, but that had almost made it worse for him. He glanced around, first to the soldiers to see if they seemed to be planning anything, and then to other patients for the same reason. That food fight had been fun while it lasted, but the results and consequences hadn't been worth it in the end.

"I used to wear a uniform back home so this isn't so bad for me," Zack said with a casual smile as he took another spoonful of the gruel and forced it down. If anything, it was the buttons that bothered him, but he knew that wearing it open wouldn't be an option. "The hat's kind of a hassle to deal with, though." Maybe it was just him, but it kept feeling like it was going to topple off.