[Tries being the opposite word here. Because he can't go on with this any longer without feeling the need to laugh. To laugh, and laugh, and laugh as he clutches at his sides.]

What, are you kidding?! Of course it was me! Who else could it be?! Ahahaha, wow! Would you really have believed me if I'd told you it wasn't?

[His posture loosens up and he fixes Ichigo with a look that's half disbelieving, half amused all the same.]

You almost did, didn't you?