The fucking smile. It's not the right smile; it lacks all the complexity and all the awareness that makes Ren's Akechi so impossible to turn away from. But despite its wrongness, despite its implications that increasingly make Ren's skin crawl, it still has a hold on him. He really is screwed.

Especially since he has to clear out every goddamn cognition. He's going to let them come back, obviously, if they're sent so far away they can't even react. But he has to make Akechi happy first.

"You owe me for this," he says wearily. "Let's go back to the bomb, we can split the area down the middle of the street."