[ Ren takes a slow breath and tries to force himself to fucking think. He's not at home, he's in weird Leblanc with an old goth Akechi, and if there's a threat, it's... not obvious. ]

He is clever. [ His voice is quiet, and he doesn't quite hear the loneliness within it. He doesn't bother to deny that he's thought about shooting Akechi. With the way he's been reacting, that one's a lost cause. ]

They can't change Shido's heart. If they wanted to kill him, I could maybe work with it, but not a change of heart.

[ But he doesn't think they're likely to kill Shido. ]