[Luckily for all parties residing in the hospital, the poison water miasma and drug cocktail running in his system is actually doing a good job keeping both of Akechi's personas away. While he can tell that he hasn't lost the contract he's formed with his other selves, it sure is quiet in his mind. Even if he was freed from his restraints there's a now way he could inflict any damage at the moment.]

You're stupid. The messier the collateral the bigger scandal. More doubt and fear in people. [Easier to drive the sheep towards the hidden wolf in the herd. It had all been a slow game, destroying people's hopes while also building trust in the man who promised to guide them towards salvation. A man who thought himself to equal to god, flooding the country and allowing only a few and selected to his ship to build a new life from the ruins. How ridiculous had it seems now. But people truly are foolish and filthy creatures, aren't they.

But what Silco says next does manage to halt the growing anger within him, stunning it completely. Again, there is something eerily familiar to the statement. A memory from the past, maybe. It seems like something that the man would have thought all those years ago.]

Then you understand. [His voice is quiet again. With a long sigh he closes his eyes again.] I must kill you. If I fail he won't keep me around. Then it'll be all over.