Ren doesn't even blink at the I'd kill him for you. He remembers Ann struggling with Kamoshida, and this Ann has been alone like Ren's been alone. Surrounded by people, but the only one who knows and remembers.

In answer to her question, he shakes his head. "I just noticed now. At home it's like—if I start to get really sad, I blink, and time's passed, and I don't feel as bad anymore, right. So, okay, Maruki doesn't want me too depressed, whatever."

Whatever is not an accurate summary of how he feels about it, and it shows in his face.

"But then sometimes I get mad and it happens, so I thought he doesn't want me mad, either, but it's. Not consistent? Like, sometimes I'll be really pissed off and I don't lose time, but sometimes I'll just get a little annoyed and then an hour's gone. And I couldn't figure out why until now, because I couldn't. Think about fighting back against Maruki, even just to realize I was losing time when I thought about it. I thought it just now and it was like. Like stretching a muscle you haven't used in ages. If that makes sense? I don't know. I think I'm rambling. Sorry."

The talking is helping him put his thoughts in order, but this poor Ann doesn't deserve to bear the brunt of it.