The Shadow takes a step closer—definitely stepping, rather than blinking ahead. While he spares Raoul a yellow-eyed glare, the bulk of his attention rests on—

"Joker. Returning to the scene of the crime?" Low and malevolent, his voice, Akechi's voice with barely a trace of distortion, will sound in Ren's ear as if they were embracing. And it will be clearest of all that this, rather than anywhere else, is the place that broken confidant bond is anchored.