[ If Ren is expecting surprise when he tells Yoshizawa that Akechi has tried to kill him before... perhaps he'll be the one who's surprised, because her response to his words is simply to nod.
No one has told her in quite so many words, but... Ren's news-casted "suicide", the Phantom Thieves' open distrust of Akechi, even - although she knows Ren himself doesn't have the memory of this - her own discomfort over the truth of Akechi's bloodlust, when the three of them first set foot in Dr. Maruki's Palace. Just those three things add up to a picture that even she can understand. And so she nods, because it makes senseβ
βand maybe because she can understand Akechi-san's feelings now, just a little. ]
He's- He's afraid because there's a part of him that wanted you to die before, but... but he's in love with you now. He doesn't want to hurt you, s-so he's scared of the part of him that did. Is that right, Senpai?
[ And she knows, from first-hand experience, how the nightmare twisted their regrets, their fears. She can still hear Kasumi's voice, dripping with rotted sweetness... ]
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No one has told her in quite so many words, but... Ren's news-casted "suicide", the Phantom Thieves' open distrust of Akechi, even - although she knows Ren himself doesn't have the memory of this - her own discomfort over the truth of Akechi's bloodlust, when the three of them first set foot in Dr. Maruki's Palace. Just those three things add up to a picture that even she can understand. And so she nods, because it makes senseβ
βand maybe because she can understand Akechi-san's feelings now, just a little. ]
He's- He's afraid because there's a part of him that wanted you to die before, but... but he's in love with you now. He doesn't want to hurt you, s-so he's scared of the part of him that did. Is that right, Senpai?
[ And she knows, from first-hand experience, how the nightmare twisted their regrets, their fears. She can still hear Kasumi's voice, dripping with rotted sweetness... ]