He swallowed me. He turned into something else and swallowed me and I breathed in his pain and then he shrank again and I—

He presses his lips together until the words no longer fill his mouth. He can't say that stuff. Akechi would be so upset. And Ren did it to himself, anyway, by going down there.

A side effect of this is that he stills in Akechi's arms, until, a long moment later, he takes a breath. "Sorry," he mumbles. He's actually going crazy. Giggling to himself like that.