Please don't pull out author (pun intended), I can see the promised land. We're so close I can taste it omfg don't take it back Akutsu, and Lily better not run or I will riot
there we go. Akutsu is the type of guy to give it straight so it makes sense for him to have balls to say it when needed. It could have happened a bit earlier, and it definitely would if they weren't angel and devil.