#its also mostly implied that akechi was sent looking for the thieves so early but it really struck me

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smth I've never even seen discussed but find extremely interesting is that kobayakawa IS a member of the conspiracy. like, he seems pretty low-level, but he's involved enough that shido and the siu director want him taken out

ofc, that's partially due to the phantom thieves, but at this point they've already decided they don't want the thieves caught. he's taken out because he knows too much.

also, it seems like shido got word about the thieves immediately after it happened and instantly connected it to the metaverse. obvs everyone brings up that he's having a meeting at the wilson while the thieves are there, but... the tv station president responds really weirdly when a normal employee says it's "impossible to change someone like that"

also I personally think it's very likely that kobayakawa was told to accept joker bc of shido. simply bc its weird as fucking hell that the only school that would accept him just so happened to have connections to the guy who framed him for assault

I don't think kobayakawa knew anything about cog psi, or even that akechi was connected. but it's just really interesting because the game itself kinda glosses over how connected kobayakawa probably was