[To Ren's credit, Akechi is hardly helping with keeping the timeline straight for how he's jumping around. But Maruki's name returns to the front of their conversation and the other teen is rewarded with a smile.
Not the warm, saccharine smile Ren saw at the station during his interview, but one that's crooked and a little sharp.]
You're keeping up.
[Not that Maruki is a threat to him just yet. Or rather, ever, now that they are both dead, but still.
Ren rudely - because it is rude - asks about Akechi's death and he shrugs as he slides back against the wall of other end of the hot spring. The topic of his death is hardly disturbing to him. If anything, it's more about the humiliation he endured. Sharing it with anyone is a blow to his fragile ego. But then again, Ren in any form has always been his one exception.
What Akechi does not say is, "I was working for my father and you simply got in the way".
Nor does he say, "A choice had to be made, so I sacrificed myself to be certain you could take Shido down".
Instead he settles on,] I was killed by my father's cognition of myself. Quite shameful, I'm well aware.
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Not the warm, saccharine smile Ren saw at the station during his interview, but one that's crooked and a little sharp.]
You're keeping up.
[Not that Maruki is a threat to him just yet. Or rather, ever, now that they are both dead, but still.
Ren rudely - because it is rude - asks about Akechi's death and he shrugs as he slides back against the wall of other end of the hot spring. The topic of his death is hardly disturbing to him. If anything, it's more about the humiliation he endured. Sharing it with anyone is a blow to his fragile ego. But then again, Ren in any form has always been his one exception.
What Akechi does not say is, "I was working for my father and you simply got in the way".
Nor does he say, "A choice had to be made, so I sacrificed myself to be certain you could take Shido down".
Instead he settles on,] I was killed by my father's cognition of myself. Quite shameful, I'm well aware.