Yeah. Unless we actually saw that chewed up gumball and I missed it with all the Clarte junk.

[ because i got a headache ]

But... Uh, okay, kid's gonna be mad I'm saying it but he's super bad at hiding it, so you might know already. He's like, half ghost? And it explains the vision with him standing over Itsuki and whatever if he wasn't standing but he was floating.