>>After looking at Akio's message, I'm bothered by one thing.
>>
>>It's too long.
>>
>>If he just wanted to say "gotcha!" he could have done it in less. If
>>he's going for that much verbosity, I'm inclined to suspect that he's
>>still trying to push people's buttons.
>
>Well, UF is a stylized anime-esque (multi)universe. Bad guys
>get the Diabolic Monologue trait on their character sheets a lot. Akio
>'at least' managed to set it up to be given after the fact.

Akio probably doesn't know how to interact with Anthy any other way, even when pragmatic villainy would indicate that it's a terrible idea.