[This was the harder of two questions to answer. Akechi mulled it over, his shoulders drawing up toward his ears in a loose shrug, and folded his legs across one another, leaning into the space made between.]

...that's difficult to answer straightforwardly. Cognition, shadows. Only one person, though he turned out to only be a cognition, as well. I shot him thinking he was real. [He has a very faraway look in his eyes as he says this, but he doesn't seem overly upset about it.]