Concept: a fic where Akechi is still in the ship when it sinks and instead of dying inside/being forced out into reality, he ends up somewhere in the middle?
Akira sees his “ghost” in Leblanc, or the train station, or the cafe they went on a not-date at once. Places that connected the two of them, and now Akira has to figure out how to pull Akechi out of the inbetween by finding all the other places in the city that connected whoever Goro Akechi really was to reality.
What parts of Akechi are real? The detective prince? The frustrated underling Akira found looking through the box of things Sae had from when they cleared out his desk? The boy that feeds ducks with old ladies? The person who runs his food blog? The part that rides the train to the end of the line so he can sit and watch the ocean for hours? Are they all?
All I’m saying is the idea that Akira saving Akechi by visiting all the places that were important to him and talking to other people who knew him in order to gain a more complete and substantial cognition of him and using that to will him back into reality is very good.









