It's hard to believe that people like you. [ Akira looks at Akechi at that, a long, careful look, because he knows that Akechi struggles with it and he knows that he'll keep saying he likes him as many times as it takes until he believes it. ]

I've only been here a year. Sometimes it feels like that's no time at all. [ Like no one even knows him, and once they find out, they won't like him.

He doesn't worry about it as much with the Phantom Thieves anymore, not really, but... he thinks everyone is a little insecure sometimes. ]