Upon confronting the voices,
By the way, something else I noticed in episode 11:
Spoiler for episode 11:
Remember Mikami's blank glare at the beginning? This one:
I was sure I already saw it somewhere and probably in this series, just that I couldn't place it correctly. But a few posts above, when haguruma said to check episode 3 from minute 16:00 onwards, I did... and I incidentally found what was secretly stored in my memory:
Now this was the piece I was missing, what I thought I had seen but couldn't place. Aside from camera angle and position, it's the same exact blank expression of someone who's completely lost in his mind... if not more.