An Akeshu/Shuake Collection

Lies

SPOILERS FOR PERSONA 5/ PERSONA5 ROYAL
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Context: (𝟹𝙰𝙼) 𝙰𝚔𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚒'𝚜 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚌𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘 𝚑𝚒𝚖 𝚒𝚗 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚍, 𝚌𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚠𝚒𝚛𝚕 𝚒𝚗 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚍. 𝙸 𝚐𝚞𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔 𝚘𝚏 𝚒𝚝 𝚊𝚜 𝙻𝚘𝚔𝚒 𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘 𝚑𝚒𝚖?

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-(Akechi is represented in "[]" , just so it doesn't get confusing.)-

How long will you keep smiling? How long will you keep that facade up? You can't do it forever. one day, you will snap. and break. and snap again. How much longer will you wait? Why do you keep hesitating? You see him nearly everyday. I know that every single time you gaze upon his face, all you can feel is hate and revenge towards him.

["No... stop... that's not true.."]

You can't lie to yourself forever. It doesn't work that way. Nothing works that way. You know this all too well. Nothing goes the way you want it. You know that whatever your father has asked you to do, you can't go against it. You know you can't. You know the consequences. You're just a puppet. And your father is the ringmaster. However hard you try to break free, you go further away. He will keep on controlling you, pulling your strings. And there is nothing you can do. Absolutely nothing.

["Stop.. I will get revenge on what he did to me..."]

Stop making empty aims. Stop making empty goals. Stop making empty claims.

You won't be able to take him down. He knows you better than yourself. He knows more about you than your own self. You wanting to constantly ruin him, you will fail. Fail and fail and fail. Time and time and time again. He's always one step ahead of you. He's always faster than you.

You've killed people in the past, but what is stopping you to make one more victim fall? Think about it Akechi, you kill one more, that's one more word of praise from your father. You will help to clear his path, rid it of nuisances, and your father will love you that one bit more. That's all you want, right? To be loved? To be given praise and affection? Then take the boy down. Just do it. Just treat it like another bag of trash that needs to be taken out.

["After assassinating Mr Okumura, I can't even look Haru in the eye. Even when all the news about it was on TV, I couldn't even watch it. It felt like a constant lump in my throat. Let Haru, I can't even look at any of the Phantom Thieves straight in the eye. Especially Futaba...and my next target. I don't even want to utter his name."]

Akechi, I warned you to not be all friendly with them. You were supposed to pretend to gain their trust, to pretend to be a part of the Phantom Thieves, but not actually become a part of their gang. If you fail in the sabotage, you would be letting your father down; you know this all too well. How many more times will I have to repeat myself? If you fail, you will let him down. If YOU fail, you will LET HIM DOWN. Imprint it into that big head of yours. You cannot afford to slip up. You know this. Just hurry up and kill him already. Just get it over and done with. The quicker you kill him, the quicker it'll be out of the way. The quicker you'll get his praise! Think about it that way, Akechi! Think! Think! Think!

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The balcony window was wide open, letting in the frigid winter current, and the mildly polluted air. No-one was on the pavement below, the street empty, almost ghostly. Akechi glanced at his watch. 3 am. The dead of night, where the view was completely atramentous. He walked closer, and closer, and closer still, progressing to the balcony, his hands leaning on the banister. Tears welled up in his eyes; however hard he tried to blink them back.. His attempt was futile. Absolutely futile. His vision was focused on the road below; it was a long way down. A very long way down. It seemed like a bottomless abyss, one of never-ending obscurity. Akechi slowly and cautiously stood on the banister, the chilling, icy metal making him shudder.

"If no-one wants me, if no-one loves me, if no-one truly cares, I should just leave. I should just leave everything. The world would be so much happier without me. So much better. I have sinned. I have murdered innocent people, who didn't deserve to meet their end that swiftly. And because of that.... Mother, I won't be seeing you in Heaven. Instead, I'll be burning in Hell.".