"I see." Wormmon crawls into Ken's lap - all this talk of different kinds of partners has made him lonely, and Ken-chan had been a whole TWO FEET AWAY, intolerable - as Ken continues to think. He has heard a theory that could possibly ease some of Adam's worries (that he knows about), but can he really voice it without definitive proof?

He doesn't want Adam to suffer, though.

"This is just hearsay." Ken's choosing his words carefully. "But it seems that time might not pass in our worlds while we're here. So if that was part of your concerns...."

Ugh, he's bad at this. Maybe he shouldn't have said anything.

But he had needed to try.