She was- [ It's equal parts fuzzy and like it happened yesterday. ] She was refusing to get into a car with- With the defendant. [ Ren remembers being on the stand, testifying the same thing. Trying to assert he was in the right, trying to just... Help. ] She was yelling, and I turned down a side street to see what was happening. The defendant seemed intoxicated, so I thought it was all a misunderstanding, maybe. He just needed to sober up, probably. [ Under the water, Ren's hands start to shake at the memory. ] He had her cornered, so I- I turned him around, touched his shoulder. Then he- [ The next word comes out as an exhale, whispered. ] Fell...

[ Ren shakes his head, tries to get his hands to still. ] He hit his head on a barricade for the road, when he tripped over his own feet.

[ He wonders if Akechi knows this already, if he just wasted his time admitting to his greatest mistake slash the most honorable moment of his life. He wonders, vaguely, if the other Ren told him any of this, or if he realized that Akechi didn't want to hear his sob story any more than his parents did. ]