[Or you drag in another player to help you win. That's not going to work here, though, considering how pulling-teeth it was to get his younger self to admit that he needs to change at all.

(It almost makes him miss the Game. There wasn't much time for arguing, there. Or is that just his own memory, as flawed as any other human's?)]

You'd be surprised. Plenty of people keep doing the same thing over and over again anyway, even when they know it's going to backfire on them.

[This is an Akechi who hasn't had to behave for the cameras for a couple years... So he doesn't bother to hide the disdain he has for people who just continue down the same road anyway.]