You realize by now that I do control as much as I can, don't you? Even then, there are the experiments, the-- mushi. [That particular event still garnered a negative reaction from him. How out of control had he been while he was recovering? How panicked and stressed had he been by his own thoughts?]

Something will always come up. We face the same threat of mental degradation that past cycles went through under all of these Shifts. [And yet he had said he would not leave if given the chance. He just needed to vent right now.]