"Yeah, it's Lotus. He talked to me about this one time." As the tape keeps playing, he tilts his head. "Not the Red Death stuff, though. That's kinda cool. He was, like... a fae Phantom Thief."

But even in Lotus's world, one of them is under Shido's thumb—because there's no way the vulture is anyone else, especially with the talk of Akechi's mother.

"Lotus wants to get Shido's name," he adds after the tape ends. "I tried to give it to him, but it didn't count."