#my sister said earlier that she doesn't want rei to die in the end

[dracrownian]

Okay but actually why is Gosho so against Rei having anyone in his life that cares about him???

His parents? Basically non-existent, given they've never been mentioned. (And I find it hard to believe they would've been that big a presence in his life anyway, given how he attached he got to Elena and the fact that, according to ZTT, she was the one to teach him to ride a bike, of all things.) Probably dead, since that seems to be the pattern.

Elena? Dead.

Akemi? Dead, and also apparently she just didn't remember him anyway.

(Atsushi? Also dead. but I don't know how close they were to begin with.)

Hiro? Dead.

Date, Matsuda, Hagi? All dead.

Like. The last living person on Elena's (side of the) family is Shiho, and she was born too late to have met Rei before her family joined the organization.

Then you have Satou, who only kinda vaguely recognizes him after they've already met a couple of times, and frankly is predisposed to dislike him given how salty she is about her time at the academy, but they have quite a bit in common and a connection through Matsuda. (and Date to an extent)

Then there's Akai, and I think if things hadn't gone down the way they did, he and Rei could've actually been friends, but Rei can't have nice things, so. That's out. (I have this possibly naive hope that it could still happen, if they manage to talk through the Scotch thing and Rei can properly grieve and come to terms with it. But I don't actually trust Gosho to do that.)

Kazami? He's probably the closest to an actual friend, but Rei doesn't really treat him as one.

Otherwise it's literally just Conan, who appears to be a small child, and is actually still only a teenager.

Let. Rei. Have. Friends.