Ren flinches back as soon as she says He was stuck in a coffin. The blood drains from his face.

"Oh," he says after a moment, when he's... kind of sure his voice will be mostly stable. "Um. I guess that makes sense." Given what he read on the board about the coffins and everything. He's just. Not used to thinking of Akechi as someone without a Persona. He was so beautiful in the Metaverse, fierce and passionate and... never mind.

"You said you helped?"