Nope's Peak Day 18 - Akechi

[truthstranger]

[Welp, another bunch of important people are dead. Time to check on Akechi.]

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[truthstranger]

A-Ah, you... want to go somewhere else... together?

[he has not believed this was a real thing enough to even think about that]

[afailedmurder]

Of course I do. We'll start from scratch — be whoever we want to be, live however we please. Wouldn't that be wonderful?

[reaching out to take his hands]

[truthstranger]

[he lets him take them, baffled]

That does sound... really nice...

[and also, completely unbelievable]

[afailedmurder]

We can go shopping around to see who actually likes the place they come from. Surely someone must? And once everyone's resurrected, we can bring your friend — I didn't have much opportunity to speak with her, but I'm sure we would get along!

[he either super believes it or super needs to, take your pick]

[truthstranger]

I—

[Maybe he has to try and believe in something like this.]

...I-I'd like that, I think. We can decide together.

[his voice is weak, like he's maybe on the verge of tears, but he also sounds happy]

[afailedmurder]

[drops one of his hands to cup the side of his face instead]

We're almost done. Only a couple more days, and then we're free.

[truthstranger]

[Is it really safe to hope that's true...? At the very least, he's not going to tell Akechi he's thinks he's wrong right now.

He lifts his freed hand to lay over Akechi's on his cheek, steadying himself and trying to sound confident.]

Y... Y-Yeah. Soon it will all be done. It shouldn't be hard to make it through that much more.

[afailedmurder]

I'll take such good care of you. I'll give you anything you want.

[leaning in for a smooch]

[truthstranger]

[didn't we already have the 'anything you want' conversation

Shuichi is too tired to complain, though, so he just drops his hand to Akechi's shoulder and leans in to kiss him, possibly a little more desperately than he intends]

[afailedmurder]

[technically that "anything" was meant to be in the context of sex and/or violence, and this one is more of a doing your hair, slaughtering your enemies, buying you nice things sort of "anything," but that might just be semantics]

[the important thing is that Akechi is here for all your codependent makeout needs]

[truthstranger]

[good, because Shuichi has a lot of codependent makeout needs at the moment. optimistic outlook: even if everything's going to be inconceivably terrible in a couple days, that's two more days in which kissing can happen]