[Akechi's silent for a few seconds, studying Ren's face. Of course he'd miss his teammate, as obnoxious as Akechi finds the cat. Ren cares too much about everyone around him not to. He doesn't know how to sympathize or empathize with that feeling, and he doesn't intend to fake it around Ren. So instead,]

Did you know, [he says conversationally,] Before your friends managed to snap themselves out of their fake realities, Morgana took the form of a human boy?