"It's entirely possible. Junpei-san isn't one of the front liners in the Operatives and is more of a reserve member. He has the mundane career path of being a baseball coach to fall back on, whereas Kirijo-san is a far more public figure, and Aigis-san and Labrys-san are both robots. They had even planned to send Sanada-san to fulfill a similar purpose in my reality, but Maruki beat him to the punch."

Suffice it to say, Akihiko was hardly pleased by that fact. Nobody was. Crow pinches the bridge of his nose at the memory.

"Our circumstances differ in that Shido is using Maruki rather than a version of me and, as such, is using brainwashing rather than those mental shutdowns, but that makes matters especially dire."