[Don't feel rushed, he says, as if Akechi has not been sprinting a marathon across his entire life.

But this being appears so oddly relaxed, it's impossible to not consider what a life past death might mean. If he is not all-consumed with a decade-long revenge plot and not desperately fighting for his autonomy, what pieces of Goro Akechi remain?]

May I ask your name? And perhaps your opinion on how best to get out of all of this snow? As atmospheric as it might be out here, I'm afraid I've lost my taste for the cold.