[Akechi is only obligated to tell this man about palaces - he did. Made good on a promise from many weeks ago and there is nothing else that needs to be said.
Deviate back to the original topic. Move away from palaces, changes of heart, psychotic breaks and-
The gap between their knowledge has dwindled to a metaphorical sliver. Maruki knows almost everything he does at this point and only half of it can be attributed to the man's needling questions.
Akechi has willfully shared more than he ever thought - trains of thought difficult to stop when a wall is waving it forward, when the brakes don't work quite right, when-]
I wonder.
[Important questions - logical ones. Confirmations found in Wakaba's research, more than likely, but Akechi's own short lived experience working with others in Metaverse, in his own years learning on the fly, have given him some insight.
More spaghetti, despite his churning stomach. It's good. He hates it.]
It makes me hesitate to state 'only' anything. Even if I had experience or a full comprehension of the cognitive world, could anyone truly claim to completely and utterly understand a human heart? No, I think not. Those words would be foolish, even from a god.
[Legs cross and uncross, chopsticks set beside the plate and he turns to stare at Maruki in full.]
A palace ruler is the person in question - that is the focus. That is the goal. To go into another cognitive world, to trap or deal with someone beyond them-
[A beat. A phone placed in his hand in a desolate hallway before they were stained with red, red, red.
He goes dead silent.
Wheels churning. It doesn't matter. A lost boy's corpse in desolate cellar and that bizarre sensation, that jump in his chest, was nerves before the end.
A hand is waved - apologetic.]
My mind wandered - it tends to do that. You asked an interesting question, is all. To be frank, anything is possible - or so it seems. Could you change a heart inside the heart of another? Can you change someone else's perception of the world in a palace? Would they even know? Could a version of yourself be killed, if someone who knew you was prepared to end your life? It's all quite fascinating and should be researched more thoroughly.
cw: murder!
Deviate back to the original topic. Move away from palaces, changes of heart, psychotic breaks and-
The gap between their knowledge has dwindled to a metaphorical sliver. Maruki knows almost everything he does at this point and only half of it can be attributed to the man's needling questions.
Akechi has willfully shared more than he ever thought - trains of thought difficult to stop when a wall is waving it forward, when the brakes don't work quite right, when-]
I wonder.
[Important questions - logical ones. Confirmations found in Wakaba's research, more than likely, but Akechi's own short lived experience working with others in Metaverse, in his own years learning on the fly, have given him some insight.
More spaghetti, despite his churning stomach. It's good. He hates it.]
It makes me hesitate to state 'only' anything. Even if I had experience or a full comprehension of the cognitive world, could anyone truly claim to completely and utterly understand a human heart? No, I think not. Those words would be foolish, even from a god.
[Legs cross and uncross, chopsticks set beside the plate and he turns to stare at Maruki in full.]
A palace ruler is the person in question - that is the focus. That is the goal. To go into another cognitive world, to trap or deal with someone beyond them-
[A beat. A phone placed in his hand in a desolate hallway before they were stained with red, red, red.
He goes dead silent.
Wheels churning. It doesn't matter. A lost boy's corpse in desolate cellar and that bizarre sensation, that jump in his chest, was nerves before the end.
A hand is waved - apologetic.]
My mind wandered - it tends to do that. You asked an interesting question, is all. To be frank, anything is possible - or so it seems. Could you change a heart inside the heart of another? Can you change someone else's perception of the world in a palace? Would they even know? Could a version of yourself be killed, if someone who knew you was prepared to end your life? It's all quite fascinating and should be researched more thoroughly.