Definitely not. Though I wouldn't object, we've never turned in that direction, and neither have the other pair among our coworkers - though they're getting over a rough patch at the moment, anyway.
[Which is a polite way of saying they've been a mess. Just another reason to hate Shinjuku, really.]
... Our Game runs with a few guiding principles, and one of the biggest is Trust your partner. It was the harder one for me to learn.
[It's probably not hard to put together why... Nor to guess how that influence made this older Akechi, in particular, more even-keeled and less paranoid overall. Once someone else gets their foot in the door, it becomes much harder to justify keeping it locked tight.]
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[Which is a polite way of saying they've been a mess. Just another reason to hate Shinjuku, really.]
... Our Game runs with a few guiding principles, and one of the biggest is Trust your partner. It was the harder one for me to learn.
[It's probably not hard to put together why... Nor to guess how that influence made this older Akechi, in particular, more even-keeled and less paranoid overall. Once someone else gets their foot in the door, it becomes much harder to justify keeping it locked tight.]