[The touch to his face and Micchy's understanding behavior actually brings a smile from him, despite how horribly stressed he is.]

Kaito and I... we were fighting some Inves and chased them into a crack. They're getting a lot harder to fight. After we defeated them, we saw him in the distance...

[Kouta has to pause, bending his fingers a few times to try and fight down the shaking that threatens to take him over again.]

He was talking to someone. On a radio, I guess. We couldn't hear the other person.