"Well, it's going to be more complicated than that," he says, staring at the half-made building behind the fence, unseeing, "If he made that decision, though, I'd expect Ren to have the strength to stand by it—that, or to choose better in the first place. Not to go to pieces and weep and wail."

After all, he, Goro Akechi, is the poster child for bad decisions, and do you see him rolling in the streets and tearing his clothes? No.