Dove stares at Raven for a quiet several seconds, processing what he's heard. At first, it almost seems like he didn't even hear him... but the look in his eyes change as it sets in, his eyes growing strangely distant as the air surrounding the duo grows eerily colder...
"...Is that so...? That I might be..."
He doesn't get a headache this time. After all, there is no body to feel the pain. Instead, his ghostly form starts flickering a bit as though he's losing his grounding to the living plane. His sense of focus is all but gone as he's stuck on this.
He feels like something wants to return to him, he really does, and yet... He can't... His memory is...
...Is he really alive, then? What if he's supposed to be dead?
He can't help but think back to the idea of being a cognition rather than a real person. If he died... If Goro Akechi died... What does that make him? False memories, revived from the dead, acting different than the real version ever did...
...Can he even say that he's Goro Akechi at all? Can he truly?
But instead of lingering on this, he puts on a smile again. That fake smile that makes him feel so wrong and fake, and yet it feels so natural and seamless. The smile that always blurs the line between the truth and acting for him.
He finally speaks up again after those several, silent seconds.
"...Ah, but I'm getting ahead of myself. After all, there is simply no conclusive evidence on it regarding my case. I'll keep the issue in mind for the future though. Thank you, Raven-kun. Knowing that certainly does put this transformation into perspective."
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"...Is that so...? That I might be..."
He doesn't get a headache this time. After all, there is no body to feel the pain. Instead, his ghostly form starts flickering a bit as though he's losing his grounding to the living plane. His sense of focus is all but gone as he's stuck on this.
He feels like something wants to return to him, he really does, and yet... He can't... His memory is...
...Is he really alive, then? What if he's supposed to be dead?
He can't help but think back to the idea of being a cognition rather than a real person. If he died... If Goro Akechi died... What does that make him? False memories, revived from the dead, acting different than the real version ever did...
...Can he even say that he's Goro Akechi at all? Can he truly?
But instead of lingering on this, he puts on a smile again. That fake smile that makes him feel so wrong and fake, and yet it feels so natural and seamless. The smile that always blurs the line between the truth and acting for him.
He finally speaks up again after those several, silent seconds.
"...Ah, but I'm getting ahead of myself. After all, there is simply no conclusive evidence on it regarding my case. I'll keep the issue in mind for the future though. Thank you, Raven-kun. Knowing that certainly does put this transformation into perspective."