Ann's smiling along with Akechi, waiting for him to say something useful, when he instead says something so unsettling she has to fight the urge to take a few Very Prudent steps back. You'd have more sense--something she cannot imagine any Goro Akechi saying to her without a gun held to his head; not even one neck-deep in the Detective Prince act. Self-deprecation can be cute, sure, and the Detective Prince didn't shy away from using it in interviews when he had the opportunity...but he'd never been one to downplay his mind.

She doesn't comment on it, though, and keeps smiling with the not-quite-ease of long practice. "Two months? Wow, that sounds like it would suck," she says. "No Personas in your world, though? At all?" If she sounds a little pointed, it's just because...well. A Goro Akechi who isn't the Black Mask is hard to fathom. Is this what her Goro would have grown up to be like, if his life had been a little less fucked up? A vaguely unsettling actual pleasant boy?