"I'm so sorry for that, Conner," apologized Deadman. It said something that the apology was so sincere and apologetic when the Conner in this universe didn't even have the same aversion to being mind-controlled that Kon did. "He would've used a worse way of controlling or incapacitating you if I hadn't done it. I had only planned on staying in there long enough to have a chance of talking him out of doing worse."