Well, lots of people have problems in real life. And behind our avatars there are real people.
Anyway, I've kept playing and then it comes the introductory narration by the MC. And these lines...
So
he (the MC) was happy back then. He says
they (Neil and him) had enough, they had each other. And then he continues saying: "As for know? Let me tell you what happened." to let the game properly start.
I don't know why, but this is giving me now a very strong feeling that Neil is gonna die during the game. I hope I am imagining things.