[The truth is more complicated. Josuke is young, but he has a strong sense of honor. He recognizes that some rules are important, but knows that it's just as important sometimes to break them, particularly if it means protecting people from great harm.

He very much tries to keep his word, even if he hasn't explicitly promised anything. And in this instance...he knows his family. They are, all of them, incredibly strong people. Probably even stronger than him. He doesn't believe for a second that there's anything Alfie could do to hurt any of them, especially not with the way they all constantly look out for one another. He trusts them. Absolutely.

Still, there is definitely a sharpness to his gaze when Alfie says he knows Jonathan. Of everyone, his great grandfather is probably the one he'd worry the most about...]

He was there helping people, wasn't he? Maintaining power.

[With the Ripple. Just like him to do something like that...and for a moment, Josuke smiles fondly. There is no one more pure and good in all this world or any other in his opinion. In his old man's absence, Jonathan has become like a second father to him.]

What were you doing there? [A pause, and then that hardness returns again, lightning quick.] Answer my other question first, though.