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“So I’m to be bait,” Akechi says flatly. “You’re serving me up.”
Ren can feel the grin on his face, and he can’t stop it. “I gotta open the store tomorrow, I only serve coffee.”
“Absolutely idiotic. Why would I agree to that?"
Ren shrugs one shoulder and leans back against the movie theater wall, smiling. He’s feeling light on his feet right now. It’s been a bad day, but the end is nice. “Call it penance.”
“Penance for what,” Akechi says.
His smile stays where it is as he glances away for a moment, then meets Akechi’s eyes again. “Being yourself.”
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Summer vacation back in Tokyo was supposed to be two things: an exciting break from the mundanity of home, and a chance to see people he's missed so much it hurts. If he survives, Ren has good news for himself on both.
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13 Jan 2026
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Seven years after the events of Royal, Akechi Goro is working at his part-time job in Osaka when he runs into one Kitagawa Yusuke. Though Yusuke promises to keep his secret for now, it's only a matter of time before Akechi will have to face his past properly.
Post-canon exploration of Akechi as a wild card. There's not particularly a Metaverse involved, but a lot of game elements are applied to the overworld. Pre-written fic
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03 Jan 2026
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Goro swallows, remembering how to speak. “Who are you?”
He swears he can feel the darkness smile. Your saviour. Or your doom. I wonder, pretty human, if you’re willing to make a bargain with me?
A bargain with a demon. For that is what this presence must be, there’s no doubt about it. Goro’s spent his whole life being warned against conversing too much with the beings that grant protection and favour, their whims so changing.
But he has little choice now.
“Name your terms,” he says.
Be my bride. Or die here.
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02 Jan 2026
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A few months after the fight with Yaldabaoth, Akira still can’t let go of his regrets: namely, not being able to save the one person who truly couldn’t fight back for themselves. But that all changes one night as the Velvet Room reopens for him, offering one last chance to right old wrongs and truly complete his rehabilitation.
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02 Jan 2026
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It's the night of November 18th, 20XX.
Tomorrow, Goro Akechi is going to enter another world with seven acquaintances and one Akira Kurusu, and betray them all. It'll make the first, and final, defeat for his one and only rival. He's been planning this for months, and it ends tomorrow night. He's been planning for his father's election for years, and it ends a month from now. So many endings, so soon, if only his well-rehearsed plans go off without a hitch.
It's just gone past eleven, and there's a knock on his apartment door.
It's a hitch.
It's the rival.Bookmarked by catIRL
02 Jan 2026