His answer is immediate; he looks curious, like it's a game. It is a game, right? Yet Ren seems so strange....

"Sae needed me that day. For her case against Shido." His soft amusement never flickers. I'm going to cast him into a living hell. "He confessed, but his confession still needs to be evidenced. I say ‘needs’." Since, as far as Akechi knows, he's still working on it.

"Do I get a question soon?" He laughs, like a little glass bell.