There has to be another way to go about this.

[Patience is a virtue. Waiting isn't. Sitting ducks in a center room, surround by enemies on all sides.

Door opens. Light off. Akechi studies the TV and the flaring curtain on it - the different buttons and phone.]

We could attempt to alter this world in a way it doesn't expect. Cognitions are easy to distort with the right motivation, so to speak. The right keys. Are you amenable to trying?

[Whether she is, or isn't, lmao. lol. He's doing it anyway.]