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[ compared to their meeting from last week, Hikage's attitude is markedly different... Or, perhaps more accurately, it's the same as it usually is. Rather than quivering with some kind of dark anticipation or grinning like a wolf, he looks... stoic. Bemused. A lot like normal Hikage, really.

Things didn't go quite as planned for him this week - both in terms of the trial, and in terms of his personal life. He's lost. But he still comes to collect, as promised, knocking at Akechi's door. ]

Open up. It's Hikage.

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[ Hikage... is tired. And it's not even mostly because of the trial, to be honest - although that didn't help matters. Belph is marginally easier to talk to than Steph, on account of not being a pretty girl (something about her that only makes her more confusing to Hikage), so he finds himself at Belph's doorstep after the trial.

In fact, he probably loiters around outside for a good minute or two, deciding if he should actually knock or not. Hopefully, no one passes by and sees him looking sketchy. But, eventually, he does knock. ]

Belph. It's me.

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Hey. Are you all right?

[ guaranteed that Hikage doesn't normally greet Ion this way - but tonight, he seems a little tired. It's hard to tell if he's annoyed, as usual, or... just simply exhausted. Either way, he had to track Ion down after seeing all those new injuries on him in the trial.

And that's not even mentioning the fact that his partner is about to die. ]