It happened in your Palace. Akechi fought us so he could take care of you himself. Once he was weakened from that fight, the cognitive Akechi--the image of him you'd built up in your mind--came to fulfill his mission and dispose of the real one. If Akechi hadn't sacrificed himself to ensure we could confront you, we probably wouldn't have made it out of there alive ourselves.
.....I don't..... actually know what happens to a body left in a Palace. We never had a chance to go back for him.
[Why is he telling you all this, indeed? Because there's very, very little that's crueler than the naked truth, when you have reason to fear it. Because you haven't hurt him personally, and he's already exercised his righteous rage on behalf of his friends that have been wronged--so any further pain he offers will be inflicted by Shido's own hands, not his. He's simply a messenger, teaching him what he had no opportunity to learn firsthand.
(And maybe..... because he wants someone else to know. He wants people to acknowledge Akechi's suffering and heartbreak, his anguish and despair, his sacrifice and ultimately heroic heart. He wants some tiny way to memorialize him, beyond those who indirectly witnessed his final moments--because a body never was found. Because a funeral couldn't be held. Because nobody had been given a chance to mourn, not really. Because the public..... hadn't seemed to notice or realize that he was gone, as much as they had appeared to adore him. They deal in a world of cognition--to speak and remember is to anchor an existence in reality, because it's important enough to remain real in people's hearts.)
.....Still, the truth isn't always merciless. Even if he doesn't know much about the subject himself, since it hasn't happened for him yet, he can at least correct Shido.]
I can't speak for any other worlds. But as much trouble as you've caused in ours, I'm told that there's some sort of evil god who's done even worse. That's supposedly going to be our next target, back home.
[Because a future Prime Minister wasn't a big enough challenge for them, they decided to literally fuck up a god, apparently. SLOW YOUR ROLL GUYS.]
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.....I don't..... actually know what happens to a body left in a Palace. We never had a chance to go back for him.
[Why is he telling you all this, indeed? Because there's very, very little that's crueler than the naked truth, when you have reason to fear it. Because you haven't hurt him personally, and he's already exercised his righteous rage on behalf of his friends that have been wronged--so any further pain he offers will be inflicted by Shido's own hands, not his. He's simply a messenger, teaching him what he had no opportunity to learn firsthand.
(And maybe..... because he wants someone else to know. He wants people to acknowledge Akechi's suffering and heartbreak, his anguish and despair, his sacrifice and ultimately heroic heart. He wants some tiny way to memorialize him, beyond those who indirectly witnessed his final moments--because a body never was found. Because a funeral couldn't be held. Because nobody had been given a chance to mourn, not really. Because the public..... hadn't seemed to notice or realize that he was gone, as much as they had appeared to adore him. They deal in a world of cognition--to speak and remember is to anchor an existence in reality, because it's important enough to remain real in people's hearts.)
.....Still, the truth isn't always merciless. Even if he doesn't know much about the subject himself, since it hasn't happened for him yet, he can at least correct Shido.]
I can't speak for any other worlds. But as much trouble as you've caused in ours, I'm told that there's some sort of evil god who's done even worse. That's supposedly going to be our next target, back home.
[Because a future Prime Minister wasn't a big enough challenge for them, they decided to literally fuck up a god, apparently. SLOW YOUR ROLL GUYS.]