[Week 5, Sunday: Hikage]

[doublecrows]

[hi, Hikage. there's a creeper lingering in the shadows of a castle hallway, waiting for the chance to speak with you. Akechi please get a better hobby that doesn't involve stalking people]

Hikage-san.

[so!! pleasant!!]

You're the Alchemist, aren't you?

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[doublecrows]

[it isn't in Akechi's nature to acknowledge the feelings he may or may not have for other people, either. he still feels that instinct to fight against them, to shove them down, to deny them and focus on himself and himself only bubbling to the surface. and yet. . .]

[. . .]

[he gives a small shrug]

I don't intend to.

[he supposes. . . for now, it's okay to admit, in the most subtle of ways. . . that he knows he's found something too precious to let go of. something other than hatred and anger and bitterness. something other than revenge]