Grief is a false God

“My father died.” Akechi declares sardonically but he sounds uncertain himself and he’s glancing somewhere far. He looks all misty and like some sort of dream like this. “I thought you hated him.” “I did.” Kurusu was silent, he didn’t know how to answer and he suddenly remembered what it was like to be subject to Akechi’s unbridled rage, and his rage was never just rage, it was jealousy, and grief, and an aching desire to be loved.________ OR Akechi receives a call announcing his father’s death: from thereon follows a flit of hysteria, a dry feud, and the ghost of a kiss.