@knightmorph
Perhaps he spent too long at Akira’s place. It was late night when he left the Lampadias Suites, and were not the place so close to the train station Akechi would have to stay the night. You try finding your way through dense forests when the only thing you have is a weird flashlight coming from your futuristic phone-thing.
In any case, this was something he was used to. He checked his phone, deleting previous messages from Joker. Nothing that could be seen, even if he managed to lose it somewhere.
There was silence. And the overwhelming darkness of such a place. Back then, he would have just caved and taken a cab. This was not an option now. It did not cheer him up any that he would have to go back to the Mare Crisium like that. He denied Akira’s offer to come with him, simply because. As charming as the leader of the Phantom Thieves managed to be, Akechi had his own sense of pride.
The blinding light as the doors open.
And then the sun was blotted out. Weirdly. By something.
Oh, by now he should be used to it. But fighting a ‘demon’ and having little to no way of dealing with the unknown was something else. And if there was something that Akechi hated, was feeling useless and defenseless. Like that. Back to the problem at hand, a very (very) large figure was sitting facing the door that just opened to the prince detective. He had no choice but to enter the train now, not wanting to delay himself any further.
Oh. Maybe that was why the trains were so large. To accommodate figures that were not human. Of course. He got so thrown off by the idea of something being capable of blocking the sun with their body that the obvious completely escaped him.
“????”
It was not fear. Nor acceptance. Just genuine confusion as to what was happening. So much for a safe, quiet trip back home.
“Do you... need to get off at this station?”
He tentatively asked, not wanting to upset the nine foot tall insect. Better than just staring at in in silence, he guessed.