...no, it doesn't make it feel much better, to have been so thoroughly deceived. And he feels like an idiot for having not even considered that a human might plan such a thing. His frown deepens.

"Which two were left? Joker and who?" The fingers of his other hand drum on the table top, an unthinking mirror to Tachibana's own anxious fidgeting. He has... gotten snips and bits of what he'd missed after being sealed. The high points, in almost no detail. He'd like to fill in some blanks, now. "Waiting to be the last one to make a move is much less risky when no one is even aware that you exist to make that move. How clever of him to wait." He says that last bit flatly. It is not praise.