He couldn't help but notice that flat expression, Kanji. He wondered if he hit on some sort of sour note-- well, besides that of whoever looked like him here.

"...Marie and... Izanami-no-Okami...?"

Suddenly, things clicked in his head, his eyes going wide. He hadn't bonded completely with Marie (nor with a certain other person he wanted to punch repeatedly in the face still), but that she had something to do with the Truth, and...

He and Adachi had Izanagi. That Izanami, the god's spurned wife, would have something to do with everything... it just made so much sense.

"... We managed to chase down Adachi, in the end, but the fog was still in the TV would when I left. That's why I'm..."

He took a deep breath, rubbing his poor jaw still with his hoof... and not quite able to meet his kouhai's eyes.

"...That whole thing I told you, before, I shouldn't have said all that. You're not supposed to know I'm looping back to the start of it all."