[He sure is getting there, bit by bit.]

I wouldn't fuss about that. We're all in this together, after all. [Surely Akechi would do the same for him, ha ha... ha... (Or maybe he'd encourage a little murder and it would all go to hell. Either way, it would be his form of 'helping', right? Right.)] I'm glad that we need not play their games fully at this point.