Man the chapter seemed so long that I'll admit that I kind of lost interest during the priests explanation of the different planets, I may have to go back and read that part. The part with his foster father kind of hit me hard though, particularly the "I've been left behind. They left me behind" line. Interesting that Shion apparently went to school with Gyoukuran and Shuukaidou though. And yeah him hearing Alice's voice in the dream is interesting.