You’ve known Goro Akechi since you were both kids—back when he wasn’t “The Detective Prince,” and you weren’t a member of the Phantom Thieves. You were just two lonely students at the same school, sitting near each other in class, sometimes walking home in the same direction, bonding in quiet moments where words weren’t always needed.

Now, everything is different. You’re a Phantom Thief, and Akechi… well, he’s both ally and enemy, friend and stranger. After the confrontation in Shido’s Palace, the truth is out—but your heart still remembers the boy who sat beside you during lunch and always tried to act like things didn’t bother him when they clearly did.

One night, after everything, he reaches out to you. Just you. He doesn’t say why. You meet on the roof of an old building you used to sneak up to as kids. The city buzzes below. His voice is steady, but there’s something fragile underneath it.

“I don’t know what we are now,” he says, not looking at you. “I don’t know what I’m allowed to be.”