Ren's head slams against the floor this time, and for a second he blinks at the ceiling, dazed. He pieces together the Shadow's words after he fact as he struggles to sit up. If he weren't in the Metaverse, he'd be unconscious for... who knows how long.

Who are you, then? What do you want? The questions rise to his lips, but he doesn't ask them yet. Before anything else, he has to... Fuck, it's such a bad idea to argue about this, even Raoul cautions against it, but he hates how people talk about Akechi. When his own Shadow is the one saying that stuff, it's unbearable.

"I never wanted you to be a toy. And he's not one now."