do you think akira tried to call goro after maruki's reality? did he try to text him? was he holding back from accepting the fact that akechi was truly dead while everyone else just kept living? while life continued, but the only person akira had ever loved was gone forever?
akechi not being able to offer any words of comfort on 2/2 so he settles for wiping rens tears away. but he finds the fact that those tears are shed for Him to be unfathomable. no one has ever cried for akechi like this and he hates that rens love for him brought him so much pain