[ Those five simple words aren't much, but they're enough to send a wave of rage washing over Akechi, so intense that he sways slightly with it. He comes very, very close to acting on the excessively reckless impulse of just trying to shoot Maruki and get it over with.

But what the doctor says next cuts through the haze, bitter amusement eating away at the sharp edges of his fury. ]

Really?

[ The word comes out a scoff, the anger and amusement evident in his tone in equal measure. ]

You have no problem overriding someone's will and condemning to life as a puppet, but a fight is too much for you?