[Akihiko echoes that laugh with a snort and half-chuckle of his own. It's nothing too mean spirited, and that gets him to relax by another margin.

Okay. No fighting. Then again, there's not exactly a bunker around that this guy can lock him up in, so that helps.]

"Sounds like the leader of our operation. 'Wild Card' or something like that; he had the ability to switch Persona out on the fly... And I was about to say I've never seen anything like it, up until now.

Though I also picked up the past tense on that. Guessing things have been just as weird for you guys, as they have for us."