[ Sure. Maybe. People can do crazy things - they can become crazy things. He knows that; he's seen it with his own two eyes. This is so clearly beyond something a clever serum or genetic mutation could achieve, but who is he to say it's impossible? Barely a week ago, he watched a man with an exposed heart grow a spider leg straight out of his back and spew poison gas from his mouth. At least Josuke's thing is more palatable.

The mention of Josuke using said thing to help him, however, puts him on the back foot again. He holds up his hands. ]

I -- you can't. You shouldn't, I mean. What I've got - it's not a normal virus. [ he swallows. ] If you restore it to how it was before... I dunno what'll happen to me.