#—how Rum got captured right when meeting Rye of all people (plus other operatives unless they were supposed to be some kind of escort)

[clownakai]

Just remembered a take I saw once about how Camel indirectly got Akemi killed and to this day I'm still sitting there like ?????? because hello. Hello! Shuuichi told Akemi he was FBI before the big capture operation that would have reportedly ended his undercover assignment, and she still refused to come with him because that would have meant leaving Shiho behind.

And no matter what, even if the operation had actually gone well, Akemi would have been seen as a burden by the BO from then on, because Rye being a spy would have immediately gotten out after that, and she'd been close to him. Camel fucking things up had literally no bearing on Akemi's fate (regardless of his self-deprecating thoughts on the matter), because if we really want to nitpick, she'd been dead from the exact moment she decided not to take Shuuichi's offer of protection around 24 hours before the botched operation. Because she loved her sister more than anything. Can we please stop ignoring our women's agency it's physically painful to see