Ken nods. He wants to ask, and doesn't want to ask, about the adult version of himself. It's distracting him. Whether it's who he'll grow up to be, or someone who's lived a different life from his particular iteration of Ichijouji Ken.....And it might be a bad idea to ask anything at all. He still is the person who determines who he becomes. Just because that Ken is a certain way doesn't mean that'll be him.

So why is he still curious.....?

.........Oh. It's as simple as that.

"I don't need to know details," he decides aloud, which makes Wormmon's head tilt up. Ken-chan? "But....."

Just this one thing. Just this one thing, for adult Ichijouji Ken. For whom, no matter what he'd been through, Ken longs for one thing. "Was my older self....happy?"

Please. If there's more than one Ichijouji Ken, please, all of them find happiness. All of them find peace.

He can't bear the thought of anyone not emerging from the pain he's felt.