[It's funny, how watching a shadow ambush a guy you refuse to admit to being in love with can take actual years off you life. Or it would be, if it hadn't, you know, taken literal years off Akechi's life.]
[The first one gets his serrated sword rammed through its mask and the rest of it, but the rest that follow come too quickly even for Akechi's immediate anxious rage. He makes a bizarrely possessive attempt to put himself between most of the shadows and Joker, but they're obviously outnumbered and outmatched, so it only does so much. It's not until there's a small, thoughtless break in them as they advance, trying to back the two of them into a corner, that Akechi blindly reaches back and takes Akira's hand. He doesn't look away from the clear shot past them, however small, tugging gently, twice.]
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[The first one gets his serrated sword rammed through its mask and the rest of it, but the rest that follow come too quickly even for Akechi's immediate anxious rage. He makes a bizarrely possessive attempt to put himself between most of the shadows and Joker, but they're obviously outnumbered and outmatched, so it only does so much. It's not until there's a small, thoughtless break in them as they advance, trying to back the two of them into a corner, that Akechi blindly reaches back and takes Akira's hand. He doesn't look away from the clear shot past them, however small, tugging gently, twice.]