[The door is, in fact, not locked. Goro had gone out somewhere, and Akira was pretty sure he'd told him to lock the door after him, but he Simply Had Not.]
[He had good days and bad days, since the maze-- he recognized that he'd been abruptly overwhelmed with what he could hear Takemi diagnosing as "the traumatic experience of being known and forced to understand yourself in a new way you don't like, resulting in a severe depressive episode", because she'd told him similar at least once before. The last time, at least, hadn't involved hearing the voices of everyone he cared about telling him things he really should have registered they'd never say. He wasn't sure what it said about him that being cognitively shot in the head was preferable.]
[But anyway, the door--]
[--is open, and Kotone is walking through it, and Akira is laying flat on his back on the floor in he and Goro's bedroom, one foot still on the bed. He tilts his head at a funny angle.] Oh. Well, I'm glad I'm wearing pants,
i love her.
[He had good days and bad days, since the maze-- he recognized that he'd been abruptly overwhelmed with what he could hear Takemi diagnosing as "the traumatic experience of being known and forced to understand yourself in a new way you don't like, resulting in a severe depressive episode", because she'd told him similar at least once before. The last time, at least, hadn't involved hearing the voices of everyone he cared about telling him things he really should have registered they'd never say. He wasn't sure what it said about him that being cognitively shot in the head was preferable.]
[But anyway, the door--]
[--is open, and Kotone is walking through it, and Akira is laying flat on his back on the floor in he and Goro's bedroom, one foot still on the bed. He tilts his head at a funny angle.] Oh. Well, I'm glad I'm wearing pants,