I managed to convince you of that? Wow, I'm good. To be honest, no matter how many scenes I look into, I probably don't know any more than you do.

[ just... give him a moment, because he's actually somewhat shocked? sure, he felt as if he knew what was going on for an entire day or two, but then mitsutada's body exploded on him this morning and left him a nice cut across his cheek, and that basically puts him back to square one with investigations.

but he does understand what steve is getting at, and his tone takes on a more serious shift. ]

Only if you think I should be worried about you. After all, making yourself look suspicious right before the battery incident, getting into fistfights with other people, and offering useless ideas during the trial... if we want to have this kind of conversation, then your actions could be called distractions, couldn't they?

[ like tying someone down with a rope to keep them in place for the night, or something... poor steve, just doing his dumbest best. ]