Jesus. His mother. John has never had great feelings about Shinichi's parents. Thought they might be all right for someone who was seventeen years old but not for someone who'd turned into a seven year old physically. They were off in America while their kid had nearly been killed - at least once - and was hunting some deadly Organization. He does understand that it's partially Shinichi's choice, that his parents do help him out some but John's not sure he could ever do the same if it was his kid.

And part of him does consider the teen his kid. Though Shinichi doesn't feel the same, maybe never truly did. John has to try very hard to keep the disappointment off his face but doesn't succeed entirely.

Not wanting to talk about it, he moved on. "Right, so I'll show you a few memories and then... I've got something else you can look at. During my time on the ship, I wrote about it and I've got the device I wrote it on. Those are just words, though. Something that could be faked. Memories are harder to mess with."