'A cool idea, if not for Shido's whole thing.' There's Akira's life in a nutshell, right there. Unaware of that point of commonality, he shakes his head.

"I've got a knack for swords, pistols, finding trouble, and surviving things I rightfully shouldn't," he quips wryly. "But if you were hoping for anything more supernatural, I didn't know such things were real until today."