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[placation]

He was kind, and we have important common ground. My gut instincts don't steer me wrong, Akechi.

[enteloki]

[DAGGERS. PHONE.

HE'S TURNING ON HIS HEEL TOO. No longer walking to Maruki - no he's heading back to the goddamn Machiya.]

You can't be this oblivious. No, perhaps you're just that stupid. I've overestimated you.

[placation]

Name one person I've been wrong about.

BB doesn't count. She isn't a person.

[enteloki]

Me.

[placation]

Don't make me laugh.

[enteloki]

You thought I was a kind hearted media personality with a desire to seek justice. I'm a murderer for hire, working for the most rotten people on earth. Cruel. Some might say evil. I've tried to kill you multiple times.

Don't make me laugh, Maruki.

[placation]

To be fair, as soon as I started getting to know you in person as opposed to through a television screen and magazine articles, I didn't think that for very long.

What's your point? I trusted you then, I trust you now. You've never betrayed that trust.

[enteloki]

You can't be serious.

Again, I've tried to kill you - multiple times in various ways. I'll murder you in our reality without hesitation or mercy. That is a betrayal - it's the most unforgivable kind.

What the hell is wrong with you?

[placation]

You will if I get in your way. You wouldn't for no reason.

These are just facts, Akechi.

[enteloki]

You're grasping at straws to make it seem better than it is. A murder is a murder. Cruelty is the point. You are not immune to that because you make a few goddamn meals.

What I told you could be lies - I could have wanted them dead, not Shido. You don't know the truth. You're making 'gut' assumptions that I'm not lying to you, and I am.

I've enjoyed every single death I've caused. Nothing makes me happier.

[placation]

One of us is grasping at straws here, certainly.

Would you like to settle this the old fashioned way? It's been a while, and Kurusu is out.

cw: violent thoughts, murder

[enteloki]

[He wants to fight - more than anything. Wants to hear Maruki gasping for life under his hand, to hear his own harrowed breath try to gain ground. Prove once and for all that a knife through Maruki's eyes would mean nothing to him, two bullets piercing his skull with ease and-

Kurusu is out. Kurusu is here. Kurusu is alive. Kurusu breaths the same air, walks down the same steps, eats from the same plates and nestles into a corner of the kotatsu adjacent to Akechi's own spot.

Kurusu who Maruki, more than anything-]

I killed him too.

Shot him right in the face when he was most vulnerable. He thought we were friends because I manipulated him to think that and he paid for it. Shido didn't ask me to kill him - I volunteered to do it. In reality, even. I shot another worthless nobody in that cell as well - just for fun.

I betrayed Akira. I'll do it again. I'll do it to you.

ALRIGHT. OKAY.

[placation]

[ What? ]

And yet, from where I stand - which you've already confirmed is farther along than where you stood – he's alive and well.

Explain to me how that works, Akechi.

CW: murder, gore, drugs lmao

[enteloki]

Does that matter?

Do you think I spared him in secret?

They filled him with drugs, beat him mercilessly and I came in with the killing blow. His blood was everywhere. His skull shattered. Every part of him decorated that room.

I remember it often. Nothing made me happier.

[placation]

You're lashing out to try to make me hate you.

It's not a bad effort. You know that I value others' lives over my own, so if I won't hate you for trying to kill me, surely I will because of who else you've killed, right?

cw: murder

[enteloki]

It was staged to look like a murder suicide. Do you know how easy that was to accomplish?

Akira looked pathetic up until the very end. He didn't fight back - there was nothing left in him that could.

Perhaps I'll recreate the scene for you tonight. You can see what that that 'gut feeling' truly causes.

[placation]

Let's go, then. If you're so eager, stop talking and meet me there.

I welcome you to try.

cw: brainwashing talk lmao

[enteloki]

[Oh he is, but-

It's working, so he continues. It's working, so he keeps going.]

I wonder what happens when you shatter a mind that's been rewritten. I've been fascinated with the idea recently.

Rumi still lives in Tokyo, doesn't she?

[placation]

I would say that I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish, but that would be a lie.

Does it help, Akechi? Hitting every button you can reach in the hope that one will get the reaction you want?

cw: murder

[enteloki]

You're so goddamn stupid.

You're worthless to me and everyone around you. Look at how quickly this reality turned against you. Your value is minimal and you'll be betrayed when your worth is gone.

When we return to our true reality, I'm killing you. Immediately. Rumi. Akira. I'll find them all. I'll kill them all.

[placation]

[ He knows. Akechi can't say anything worse than what Maruki's own cognition says to him. ]

In every reality, I care about you. Even when it could or does get me killed. This one is no exception.

Stop wasting time. Are you afraid?

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In every reality, you're an idiot. What a surprise, truly.

I'm not afraid of anything. I never am, and never will be.

Stop looking for that sobbing child you think is me. It's not. You 'care' for a murderer. You house the heartless. You like to be hurt, so you surround yourself with those who will enact it.

You're so pathetic.

[placation]

You're losing steam already. That's disappointing.

[enteloki]

That's hilarious. I almost puked.

I hate you. I can't wait until you're a goddamn corpse. When I kill you, it'll feel better than shooting Akira.

All the the other Phantom Thieves too - they're on a list to be murdered soon. I wonder how many losses you can really take before you snap entirely.

[placation]

If you kill me immediately upon our return, then I suppose we'll never find out.