Thrill. Adrenaline. Tit for tat - a tug forward. A trap and olive branch held out with one single comment, waiting for Akechi to grasp it. He needs to be flexible and adapt his approach - they're both feeling one another out, which is telling in its own right, but there was tension between them even before Akechi pressed hot steel against his forehead and
shot
Without regret, without remorse, without mercy.]
How mysterious.
[And
Akechi
knows everything.
Maruki Takuto knew everything. Knows. Learned over time and with his own intuition. From realities merged and warped to distort their minds.
Akira is at a disadvantage.
Akechi wants to keep it that way and-
This is a dance. Relaying too little tells more than spewing the truth. Dangle a rope over a drowning man, a piece of meat over a lion's den - he can do it with some exercised caution, feigned unease filtering his tone.]
That could be any number of things, couldn't it? You're an enigmatic man with no shortage of secrets held under the surface. It almost makes me wonder if someone else could have relayed it to him.
[The Detective Prince, who knows about the Phantom Thieves. Akechi, who walked among them with his own will lay bare. Akechi Goro who considered it all meaningless and left a body to rot in a jailcell.]
Bonds can be forged after all.
[Born in fire of injustice. Warped around lies.]
Do you really trust that he knows that about you? Perhaps there's another here willing to put your secrets on display to the world and he took advantage. You had many acquaintances. Friends. We can't ever know how many inhabitants from our Tokyo reside in this reality or have, at one point. A loud mouthed individual may have told stories to another who never knew about our world and it was stated to a curious man with no shortage of free time.
Wouldn't it be interesting if all your trust was because of a mistakenly shared statement?
[A hand raises to his chin in pensive thought, as if the matter only occurred to him with Akira's appearance. As if he's truly vexed by the idea.]
That's only a hypothetical, of course. Something to keep in mind - I've been living with him for some time and have a decent grasp of his behavior and principles.
💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥cw: still murder lmao
Thrill. Adrenaline. Tit for tat - a tug forward. A trap and olive branch held out with one single comment, waiting for Akechi to grasp it. He needs to be flexible and adapt his approach - they're both feeling one another out, which is telling in its own right, but there was tension between them even before Akechi pressed hot steel against his forehead and
shot
Without regret, without remorse, without mercy.]How mysterious.
[And
knows everything.
Maruki Takuto knew everything. Knows. Learned over time and with his own intuition. From realities merged and warped to distort their minds.Akira is at a disadvantage.
Akechi wants to keep it that way and-This is a dance. Relaying too little tells more than spewing the truth. Dangle a rope over a drowning man, a piece of meat over a lion's den - he can do it with some exercised caution, feigned unease filtering his tone.]
That could be any number of things, couldn't it? You're an enigmatic man with no shortage of secrets held under the surface. It almost makes me wonder if someone else could have relayed it to him.
[The Detective Prince, who knows about the Phantom Thieves. Akechi, who walked among them with his own will lay bare. Akechi Goro who considered it all meaningless and left a body to rot in a jailcell.]
Bonds can be forged after all.
[Born in fire of injustice. Warped around lies.]
Do you really trust that he knows that about you? Perhaps there's another here willing to put your secrets on display to the world and he took advantage. You had many acquaintances. Friends. We can't ever know how many inhabitants from our Tokyo reside in this reality or have, at one point. A loud mouthed individual may have told stories to another who never knew about our world and it was stated to a curious man with no shortage of free time.
Wouldn't it be interesting if all your trust was because of a mistakenly shared statement?
[A hand raises to his chin in pensive thought, as if the matter only occurred to him with Akira's appearance. As if he's truly vexed by the idea.]
That's only a hypothetical, of course. Something to keep in mind - I've been living with him for some time and have a decent grasp of his behavior and principles.