There's this thing you might have heard of called "security". He's a major politician with both police and Yakuza connections, you think one person could manage to kill him through mundane means?

[He shakes his head with a shrug. He doesn't really care anymore, anyway. As long as Akira survives to change Shido's heart...]

I could kill two people to save us both. I lost my resolve when it came to killing ten more. It's really as simple as that. Justice...society's justice lost its glamor to me a long time ago, when I saw just how corrupt the world really is.