miscakes | catch-all: akira.

[Does Akechi tense up when Akira drops a hand on his shoulder? Or is it the fact that Akira is squeezing something that's no longer flesh? It's... a little hard to tell, but that doesn't change the way he quietly exhales at those words.

...

What an absolute idiot.

Akira is free to go. Akechi isn't going to follow him.]

[PLEASE AKIRA ISN'T ACTUALLY LEAVING??? his hand drops from Akechi's shoulder, but stops after a few steps, raising a brow at the detective when he does so]

Well?

Are you coming?

[hang out Akechi!! he wants to hang out!!]

[HE SHOULD. Akechi does not want to hang out anymore, but, after a beat.]

... Yes.

[Where to next? Before Akira can say anything else:]

I know who is in possession of flute.

[well then say you don't, doofus. Akira would accept it]

Oh yeah?

[anyway now they're heading to the duck pond. why? because I said so]

Who is it?

[Does Akira want to get shot by a duck?]

Agni-san.

[So that's one mystery solved.]

... I heard he is in possession of an item that allows him to transfer one injury to someone else, and a sheath that creates a temporary illusion. He also recovered part of his powers. [A pause, and then he sounds very smug.] But I'm not supposed to know about any of this. So keep that to yourself for now, yes?

[Akechi. . .]

[Akira mimes zipping his mouth shut, then locking it before tossing away the key]

I'm a master of secrets. Who'd you get this information from?

Hunter gave me a name on Monday evening. Everything else, I learned from other sources. [...] It's been a long week.

[He may or may not have swindled people out of information. It's fine.]

[a huffed laugh, and when they reach the duck pond, Akira immediately heads for the edge of same. TIME TO COO AT SOME DUCKS]

You've been busy, then. People are going to start calling you a busybody.

... They already think that on me. How do you think I get the information we need before each trial?

[A guy nyooms, Akira. That's 90% of the reason why some people are currently annoyed with him. Either way, Akechi just watches him coo at the ducks.]

[HE KNOWS AKECHI NYOOMS. AKECHI NYOOMS FAST. but all work and no play makes Akechi a dull boy]

Then it sounds like you need a vacation. Where would you go, if you could take one?

[GOTTA GO FAST... He shrugs, though.]

If I could? [In the tone of someone who thinks that ain't going to happen. He will indulge him just this Once, though.] ... I would travel and see the world. Visiting only one place doesn't interest me.

[ah. . . that's not a bad choice at all]

Ah.

[Akira tilts his head, watching the ducks as they splash about the pond]

That's a good answer. . . I'd probably choose that, too.

[mmmm. but]

I'd want to go to Paris most of all.

[...]

Because of your persona?

[Akira? You nerd?]

Yep.

[yeah]

[no literally that's all he says in response. "yep." got it in one, Akechi]

... You could have at least lied to pretend it's something more poignant than that.

[Akira, please.]

You don't think it's poignant?

[agree to disagree on that]

When Arsene is literally the crystallization of who I am?

You have dozens of other personas.

[Agree to disagree on that..........]

But none of them are as cool as Arsene.

[you can't disagree with that can you!1]

None of them are "cool."

[yes he can.]

[excuse him??]

Oh but Loki and Robin Hood are?

Of course. They're mine, after all.

[duh???]

. . .

[just]

[stares]

[in disbelief]

[he

smiles

and waits for him to say something to refute him.]

[and finally]

I guess that means you think the short shorts and purple-and-gray stripes are cool too, right?

[His expression immediately sours.]

You and I both know we have no say in what our outfits look like.

[THINK OF ANN, YOU MONSTER.]

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