Shido's cognition of me as the engine that drove his ambitions - working beneath the waterline to fuel his progress towards his goals. Until it was time to be replaced.
[He doesn't make any effort to hide that part of the circumstances - he died in the Metaverse, in Shido's Palace. That Shido still had a Palace at the time is answer to the almost spoken question that he doesn't even need to look to see in his other self's mind.
He failed, and died unfulfilled.
(If he hadn't already paid that price, it would surely have been his Entry Fee.)
He doesn't mention the witnesses. That the Phantom Thieves were there, and that he took that bullet for them. That that Cognition disappeared when he did, no longer an obstacle - or at least it should have. It wouldn't have taken Shido long to figure out that he was dead, at least not once he got the Calling Card.]
no subject
[He doesn't make any effort to hide that part of the circumstances - he died in the Metaverse, in Shido's Palace. That Shido still had a Palace at the time is answer to the almost spoken question that he doesn't even need to look to see in his other self's mind.
He failed, and died unfulfilled.
(If he hadn't already paid that price, it would surely have been his Entry Fee.)
He doesn't mention the witnesses. That the Phantom Thieves were there, and that he took that bullet for them. That that Cognition disappeared when he did, no longer an obstacle - or at least it should have. It wouldn't have taken Shido long to figure out that he was dead, at least not once he got the Calling Card.]