[a beat, and then] There are a lot of questions I have to ask you. And you're going to answer them.
I'm just -- not ready yet.
[he's aware of three months of avoiding thinking about the Fourteenth; how he was there, all the time, so close to the surface; how his presence was why the akuma were hunting him, all the time, day and night. he came so terrifyingly close to losing himself more than once, and it all started because he thought in passing about empathizing with the Fourteenth]
[he has to be sure that just asking isn't going to provoke the very last thing he wants]