[Funny how Akira definitely does not let go of that pipe. In fact, he yanks on it, hard, trying to take it away.]

You know, Yusuke, you can fool a lot of people, and maybe you think you can fool me too, but I'm not stupid.

[And also, Yusuke is painfully transparent. A transparency that he's more than happy to point out to him.]

Cut the crap, will you? Your parents don't show up for check ins and the only crap that ever gets buzzed to my phone from them is about how you're not performing well, like you're some kind of puppet or a greyhound at the races. There's no way you don't hear more of this than I do.

All this acting out of yours? It's just your way of trying to get back at them for being such shit heels to you. You'd love it if you could find a way to make people actually care about an accomplishment of yours as opposed to this... keeping up with the Joneses nonsense.

But you are right about one thing. It won't be on my conscience because like fuck am I going to just let you go off and get yourself killed.

[He yanks, hard, surprisingly so for a guy that's only supposed to be a huge fucking nerd.]