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As the Phantom Thieves battle to free themselves and the rest of the world from the blissful stupor of the new reality, a chilling revelation is laid on Akira about Akechi's fate during Shido's Palace. Reeling in the struggle between the two's differing wills on the matter, events are set in motion that reset the timeline to the beginning of the previous year. No knowledge of the trials and tribulations approaching remain for Akira, Akechi, or any of the Phantom Thieves.
Still the pair's desperate desires ring true, forgotten but not lost, and the smallest changes can have the largest effects.
“Were you ever going to tell me, Goro?” Akira's voice was whisper quiet, brittle like new frost.
“How could I? I had no proof; it was a theory. If I had known you would be like this, probably not,” his voice had picked up that goading edge again, like it was all going to fall back to normalcy.
“Go to hell. You know I’d have tried to work this out sooner! Now we have no time!”
“What would time have to do with any of this? It already happened.”
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"Our plan was to use Sae's palace," Akira says. "We'd pull you into the Metaverse and let you kill her cognition of me in the interrogation room."
Was. It's useless now that Akechi knows, but Akira smiles as he speaks. He's cornered himself, mate in one, but it won't be the first time he's died. At worst he'll restart his probation again, back in April.
At best, they'll move to step two of his real plan, tearing apart Shido's conspiracy one crooked heart at a time until Akechi is as free as his past allows and resoundingly not dead. It'd be easy to resent the world for demanding Akira save it, but at least it's had the decency to let him save his friends along the way. All of them, even the one who only makes the job harder.