[He makes a face at the family business portion of it, because he can absolutely understand that, and rubs at his hands, shrugging.]

You share more than enough, Ren. I can't say I don't understand a parent's expectations, at the very least, as hands off as my father was... Well, my older brother received the brunt of it, I suppose, but I was prepared for the same thing should things with him sour.

[Even if he found himself jealous, at times, that their father prized Akira more as the eldest son. Even if Goro worked just as hard to be someone worth looking at. While the other Goro of Recolle may not understand Akechi completely, he does himself, and knows he wouldn't have hesitated given the same power at that time. Why he's more comfortable with it now.

... What he wouldn't give to have grown up with his mother, though, if she were as nice as that...]