It's the proper balance between reach, lethality, and guard.
[It's a lie, but an easy one. He's not going to admit that as a child, he'd wanted to be like the heroes on TV, the science-fiction escapism of a laser saber seeping into his personality and awakening along with his Persona. The fantasy of being a dashing swordsman, able to take on any foe, alone, like the novels he'd read and the movies he'd seen.
No. That's not anyone's business.]
You know, part of assuming another identity is not to reveal it so easily, [Akechi remarks. He already knows Cole is some kind of spirit... ghost... Shadow... entity, so it doesn't surprise him as much as it should that Cole is someone else.] What happened to him?
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[It's a lie, but an easy one. He's not going to admit that as a child, he'd wanted to be like the heroes on TV, the science-fiction escapism of a laser saber seeping into his personality and awakening along with his Persona. The fantasy of being a dashing swordsman, able to take on any foe, alone, like the novels he'd read and the movies he'd seen.
No. That's not anyone's business.]
You know, part of assuming another identity is not to reveal it so easily, [Akechi remarks. He already knows Cole is some kind of spirit... ghost... Shadow... entity, so it doesn't surprise him as much as it should that Cole is someone else.] What happened to him?