"All I'm sayin' is, if you're going through the effort to make an evil lair, you should have some evil ambitions to back it up. Otherwise, you just look like you're tryin' too hard."

He flushes a little when she mentions Akane. "Well, yeah, 'course she was worried. I was sort of dead and nobody told her." It didn't help his faith in the police force that that'd happened.

"But I'm better now, so no big deal. 'S not like that's anything new."