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[foolishjustice]

Hmm...well, I guess it's fine as long as people don't find them too offputting. It could certainly be worse.

[wantsnudes]

Perhaps if we show them to someone, they might be able to help you return to normal. One of the locals, perhaps...?

[Then again, if the fruit is native to a neighbouring kingdom and not this area, that might not be so helpful.]

[foolishjustice]

Or at least tell me if this is all they do. I'm a little worried about less obvious effects.

[wantsnudes]

Come, let's ask around.

[Yusuke is already marching off to find some locals. Tag along, y/n?]

[foolishjustice]

[Let him pack up his food first! He does that hastily, then trots to catch up with Yusuke.]

Well, I was planning on taking today to explore...

[wantsnudes]

Then it's two birds with one stone, as it were.

[Maybe he shouldn't talk about stoning birds around Akechi? Oh well.]

[foolishjustice]

[Just don't talk about eating crow, or anything else involving death of corvids...]

It feels a little strange, having someone else to look around with. Sae-san was always too busy to come with me when I was visiting unfamiliar parts of Tokyo...

[wantsnudes]

Oh? I didn't realise you would have invited her to such things.

[They were just coworkers, as far as he knew, and Akechi didn't seem like the type to want to hang out with anyone if he didn't have something to get out of it. That's just an assumption, though.]

[foolishjustice]

We...used to spend a lot of time together, even outside of work. My fans even wound up with all sorts of wild theories as to what our relationship might have been...

[Oh for the days when he could laugh himself to tears over Sae being mistaken for old enough to have a child his age. He misses when their relationship was that comfortable.]

That was...before she became so obsessed with victory that I couldn't tolerate her behavior anymore, though. We've barely spoken since our first argument about it.

[wantsnudes]

I think you'd be surprised if you met her now. She's a very different person, one who helped us all so much.

[Between her and Sojiro, they restored Yusuke's faith in adults, at least a little.]

[foolishjustice]

I had hoped the change of heart would have that effect.

[He pauses, idly brushing a bit of hair behind his ear.]

Maybe if it's possible to alter the future. I haven't had time to talk to her since she showed me Amamiya-kun's phone. And based on what he's told me, I won't get another chance unless I can make different choices from the ones you people remember me making.

[wantsnudes]

Ah... So he told you. [Yusuke's expression falls. He had intended to keep quiet about it, but Ren knows Akechi best, so he'll trust his judgement on the matter.]

He's telling the truth. You'll meet the same fate, if you insist on repeating the same actions you had been so intent on seeing through.

[foolishjustice]

He didn't seem like he was lying. And if Shido already knows about my relation to him, then my plan is ruined regardless of whether or not he suffers a change of heart. It won't be as satisfying as personally forcing him to experience what it's like to grovel in fear of someone with the power to ruin or end your life on a whim, but...as long as I can put an end to his crimes and make him suffer for what he's done, I can be satisfied.

[wantsnudes]

We offered for you to rejoin us so that we could put a stop to him as a team, you know. I wish you had taken us up on that offer.

[foolishjustice]

...Why? I'd already betrayed you once, and Amamiya-kun admitted he didn't know if I had considered our friendship real.

[wantsnudes]

We had a common goal, and you had nothing to lose by joining us. Besides, you would hardly betray us again, when Shido wanted rid of you.

[foolishjustice]

What about...what I'd already done? You had every reason to want me gone, yourselves.

[Especially Futaba and Haru...]

[wantsnudes]

We all understood what it was like to be used as a tool by terrible adults. As I said before -- we might not be able to forgive your actions, but we can still put ourselves in your position. If we hadn't found one another as Phantom Thieves-- had we been in your circumstances-- who knows what we would have done, in moments of desperation.

[foolishjustice]

And understanding eases your anger? Even if I understood why Shido thinks the way he does, it wouldn't do anything to reduce my hatred toward him.

[wantsnudes]

[Yusuke stops walking and sighs, hands balled into fists. No, of course he's angry. But...]

Knowing how you were used... Listening to Shido gloated about using you for his own ends, then tossing you aside...

What I thought about in those moments was that you were as much a victim as a perpetrator. If Shido hadn't set you up to become as you were, you might have used your powers differently.

[foolishjustice]

[He stops walking when Yusuke does, looking away so he doesn't have to see that angry red aura out of the corner of his eye.]

...I offered to use my power for his ends. When I met him, he was struggling amid scandals...I offered to use my abilities to discredit his detractors.

[wantsnudes]

Be that as it may... I'm not suggesting that in calling you a victim, you had no hand in your own actions. But that responsibility is rather diminished when a child is clearly being taken advantage of by an adult. You would never had been so hinged on revenge if he had not wronged you to begin with.

[foolishjustice]

Is that why you want to give me a second chance? To...see what I do, when pursuing that revenge isn't an option?

[wantsnudes]

[Yusuke shakes his head, looking back at Akechi.]

The Phantom Thieves have a role to protect all those who were wronged by terrible adults, when no one else will take a stand for them. Wishing for you to be safe and well for its own sake... that's truly all there is to it.

[Whatever Akechi does with that second chance is up to him.]

[foolishjustice]

I still don't get your mindset, after all the cause I've given you to resent me. But, I can at least understand wanting to mitigate or undo some of the damage caused by people like Shido and his accomplices.