[This would be a really bad time to bring up how he feels like he doesn't know Ain anymore because he's changed so much and grown for the better and maybe whatever Add thinks isn't going to be right anymore... yeah. okay. keeping those particular thoughts locked up in his brain, no one but Mizuki needs to know that right now I guess.

With his hands gripping his knees, the armrest dynamos have also started to fidget. There has to be something they can do besides tell the whole-ass truth...]

Maybe... we at least break it into chunks... we don't have to tell him everything at once. [but won't that raise further questions if they say they had a fight but insist on talking about it another time? That'll just keep him mad at them until they get around to explaining it.] Or we precede and follow it with something positive. Sandwich the bad news with two pieces of good news. It's a proven effective strategy.

Maybe... maybe, if we say something even worse happened, and then surprise him by admitting it wasn't that bad, he'll be distracted by a theoretically worse scenario and be too relieved to be upset about it? Like I did try to kill you on purpose, or you almost killed me back— [please god stop him from trying to make their problems worse]