"Just a hunch. An observation of trends." He seized a nigiri as it passed, contemplating for a moment. "As many people named 'Goro Akechi' lurk around here, a lot of 'other me' ended up working for Shido. The exceptions have involved someone else taking his place, or being trapped along with him in the same situation. Like Haru Okumura. Or Futaba. Or Sumire Yoshizawa."

He drummed his fingers on the table, frowning. "But I encounter a Ren Amamiya who's in that situation, wears a black mask, has many of the same issues with anger and violence that I have, and it makes me wonder how the deck's been shuffled, there? Who's in what I would perceive as 'Ren's' spot? And then you come into the picture. There weren't that many people involved in that operation. Myself, Raven, Falcon, and Crow, all with the same name, if not the same face. Futaba Akechi, whose brother is here and accounted for, and Renée, whose Goro Akechi is accounted for by way of being me. Ren's the only outlier, and he's alone. So when you came in mentioning being new and asking questions about the operation like you knew what happened. It was a guess. A pretty well-educated guess, but a guess just the same."