[It's a sentiment that Akechi can understand. Any sort of weakness or liability always has to be fixed immediately. Not just in himself, of course, but now in others, too. If they're going to work as a team — something he still barely has any experience in and that itself isn't great — they need to be able to trust each other to be useful.

So, he ponders Lion for a moment.]

Honestly, that is a valid fighting technique if you happen to be surrounded by cabbages. [He tries to delicately switch the topic around on them.] Does your, ah, path require fighting? I recall some of them were more support-based.