I feel like you have a good grasp on Akihito and Asami as characters and this has been occupying my mind for the whole day, an AU crossover with 'Higurashi' where everything in 'Finder' including the events hasn't changed until the 'Pray in the Abyss' arc where instead of staying hidden at the temple, Akihito instead gets sent to Himinazawa and through some events in the first day staying gains the ability to tranverse worlds through the sea of fragments. All he has to do is die to do this, and he'll be sent back to worlds where everything is still the same, but Akihito gets sent back to the day where he first met Asami every time he dies. This goes on for 50 years although the relationship with Akihito and Asami still fall for each other in every single world.
What do you think, and what do you think would happen if Asami finds out about what Akihito is going through?
Oh wow, I just looked up Higurashi and it looks lit! What a fascinating premise. It does look like it's a very complex universe, and because I did a very superficial reading of it (and a crossover would require a more refined understanding of its rules and characteristics), I can only offer a tentative answer to your question based on a somewhat similar crossover (maybe remotely similar lol. Or not at all similar. I apologize in advance for my ignorance).
Back in the day, I was obsessed with the idea that Asami (not Akihito, but Asami, because to me he is the one secretly wishing he could transverse universes and timelines to change how his story with Akihito began - heck, perhaps even change his own life/career choices!) would be out of himself with grief after Akihito dies, because of his criminal shenanigans. A figment of his former powerful self, he would spend day and night looking at all the pictures Akihito ever took while alive, and one day, without any explanation, he goes into a trance and finds himself - yup - transported to the past, at a certain point of their relationship.
He then realizes that, perhaps, if he makes different decisions in the past he can alter the future, meaning: Akihito does not die the way he does, and he and Asami can have a life together.
The problem is, no matter what point of their relationship he travels to, no matter what decision he makes, the outcome is always the same: Akihito dies. Every. Single. Time.
Until the moment he understands.
The only way to save Akihito is to go back to the day they are supposed to meet, and make sure they never actually do.
When he returns to the present, he is alone. Most powerful man in Japan, yadda yadda, still with Kirishima, still with Suoh, but with no Akihito.
Except, he remembers everything.
And one day, getting out of Sion and before entering his limo, he sees the photographer walking down the street, talking on the phone with who knows who, looking as beautiful and free as he ever was.
And their eyes meet for a second, Akihito raises an eyebrow, but keeps walking, and Asami lets him go.
Because to him, Akihito being alive is the only thing that matters, even if all he can have now is memories of a life they had together somewhere, sometime.
So, to answer your question, I think Asami would do the unthinkable to stop Akihito from suffering. Even if it meant dying, even if it meant leaving, even if it meant that the only way to relieve Akihito from that "curse" is to simply never allow them to meet each other.
Thank goodness we know Finder is not that kind of manga, heh!
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