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C, C, E, C, C, D…
Goro couldn’t really concentrate on his guitar. All the notes sound like crap to him right now. The air around the house is awkward right now as well.
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Recently, he’s been reading more into news archives of the Phantom Thieves boom and he noticed a particular name: Goro Akechi, a detective on the Phantom Thieves case. From the interviews, he seems like a smart, polite guy. But then he disappeared at the end of the case and was never found. That wasn’t the thing that caught his eye. The first name, Goro, did. Maybe Goro can pass it off as a common name, but still, it’s peculiar.
When Goro asked his parents if he was named after this Akechi, they fell silent. His mom had a worried look on her while his father’s was stern. What’s with the awkwardness? “Mom! Dad! Just answer me yes or no!”
Goro was getting irritated by their silence. To him, it’s only a yes or no question. Why is it so hard?
“Yes,” his mother broke the tension. “We did name you after him.”
“Why?”
His mom fell silent again.
To him, this was weird. This shouldn’t be an awkward topic. Unless his parents had a history with Akechi, something like a secret…
“Mom, Dad. Are you hiding something from me? About Akechi?”
Both parents panicked. “Goro…” his father started saying. “They are some things we can’t tell ya about yet.”
“Then when will I be told, Dad?” Goro was getting mad. “When?”
“When we’re ready, champ.”
This simple question got him nowhere and it angers him. “Mom, Dad, come the fuck on! All I want is an answer on why I was named after this guy and you’re being so fucking defensive about it!” Goro slammed his fist on the table hard, rocking the silverware. “And you’re telling me it’s a secret? I’m done with you guys.”
Goro stormed off back into his room, enraged. Meanwhile, his parents looked at each other in silence.
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He tried picking up his guitar again.
C, C, E, C, C, D, E, E, F, A...
He just can’t. He’s too upset to continue. He wished he could figure out who this Akechi was and why parents are so cagey around him.
Goro picked up his phone from the nightstand to see what’s up in the world lately, maybe it would calm him down a bit. He then noticed a purple eye icon sitting on his home menu. “I don’t remember installing this…” Goro said to himself. He dragged the icon into the uninstall bin and checked on the news app. But then a weird notification popped up on his phone...from that uninstalled app, saying:
METAVERSE TEAR DETECTED IN THIS AREA