[Now that is something he wonders about. He's not so blind with admiration as to be ignorant to hypocrisy, Akechi's or his own. Still, correcting him would do no good, so he simply continues to smile.]

...You said what you saw of me was tame in comparison, but the truth is that when you see only pieces of a large puzzle, only small interactions of someone picking at others until they unwind like string from a shirt, it appears harmless. Normal, almost.

The truth is that I've done some vicious, horrible things. I've piled up corpses to use as ladders, bathed in the blood of friends and enemies alike, all to sit atop a lonely throne and control things from there. And pathetically, I was chased from the top, so soon after claiming it for myself.

Death might have been a mercy, for many that I trampled over.