[Moriarty hesitates...before slowly shaking his head.]

It was - not just because of Ritsuka, no. I...became privy to Aoi's close one...a young baby girl.

[Would you let a baby die if you could help it, Kaito?]

He is, in a sense, from a few years ahead of Akane - so things have happened for him that have not yet happened for her, in her perspective.

[...]

I was going to let fate decide my victim - though I had hoped only the older sorts would be up here. Or Hermes.

[Since yeah, he uh. Dooooesn't think anyone would be too upset about hermes dying.]