Lonely Pair

Akechi Goro wakes up having been flung from the diet building, inexplicably alive. The last thing he remembers is closing the partition between himself and the Phantom Thieves to face his cognitive self alone. By all means, he should be dead. As he leaves the area, he comes across someone he never expected to be slumped against a light pole covered in bruises, but this night is filled with mysteries, including but not limited to why Ryuji is happier to see that Akechi is alive than Akechi himself feels to be alive.