[ Goro keeps his cards close, revealing his hand every now and then but only in slivers. If his smile wanes at all, the overrun gears in his head are just turning; same old, same old -- even as he mulls, briefly, over crescent mouths and rarer laughs. To nudge and prod or carry on, give them both the proper mercy-kill to their borrowed lives right after -- ]

From small to microscopic, maybe even nonexistent... It's unsettling, the way your laugh sounds like a broken playback, overall.

[ -- except none of Akira's antis has ever claimed so. Just a recited thing: an online comment from before, during the time when Akechi earned the public's rightful animosity aligned with the Phantom Thieves' rising acclaim. And if Akira means to goad him on by emulating his little idiosyncrasies -- well, it's not like he'd know, and he can't really ask anyway. Callous and careless remarks may as well do the trick for the time being. ]

But should I be anything less than fine? I wonder if you're only asking because you've discovered something rather conclusive about our modern time vigilantes. Groundbreaking enough to leave the world at large quite shaken with the given epiphany, perhaps?

[ Honesty is waiting around somewhere, more than prepared for its #comeback. Later, though. ]