If you'd been happy, I might not have made the call. For awhile, I thought -- I worried that you weren't... real, either. That you'd been brought back just to make me happy, and you were just acting how I thought you would. [ He'd be so relieved when Akechi last after the "spell" broke for everyone else, and then devastated to realize Akechi would still be dead in the end.

Akechi had, Akira thinks, been brought back to make Akira happy; it just hadn't taken as well for either of them as it had for everyone else. ]

But I knew you'd hate me forever if I agreed, even if he wiped our minds so thoroughly we didn't remember it. I don't think I wanted a fake life for you. I wanted you to find your own life.