"Expecting someone else?"

Of course he has to make a show of it. That's how he is, in a cape or not.

"Leggings or a top hat and monocle, that would also have been amusing, I must say."

Akechi might have strangled him, for one.

"The Shadow." The name would sound kinda stupid in any other context, but Akechi somehow made it work. "A radio, movie and comic book character. You could almost think of him akin to an early version of Cake Knight or Ogon Bat."