[Ion touches one of the newfound scars on his skin. His soft expression falls, and he looks slightly away, not sure how to meet that shocked look on Akechi's face. He doesn't have an answer. All the things he could think of to say...he knows they don't make any sense. But all he feels, that he can't express, is that no real human, no person with a life that matters, that was brought into the world unique and wholly original, deserves to suffer when he could suffer in their place.

So he tells the truth, at least as much as he can stomach.]

...I don't know. I just can't stand thinking that you could get stuck with something like this that you didn't ask for. You deserve better than that.