I get along with most people, but I don't usually count them as friends. Shinya's kind of an outlier. [ He'd been precocious, but more than that, Akira had seen in him a single person whose relationship with a parental figure he could actually help. He doesn't go into that with Akechi, doesn't think "I had to change his horrible mom's heart" is really where they should be going with the conversation right now. ]

I'm really good at video games, thanks to him.