Gods, since I'm writing about it, I keep on churning about this, and now I'm being hit with the realization of how fucking INTRUSIVE AS FUCK Maruki is.
Ren's wish to have Akechi back was never spoken out loud to ANYONE. It's a very intimate wish, that no one around him would be able to understand, or that could hurt the ones he cares about. Like I said before, I just know Ren is even shameful about it since it's about missing and caring so deeply his friends' parents' murderer. It's his only selfish wish, as someone who is so giving to everyone else.
That wish must have been buried so deep down, shamefully, perhaps barely even consciously. And Maruki just guts it out and bares it to the world so balantly — Dare I say cruelly, even ?
Gods.
















