[ Asougi can feel his blood run cold as Holmes speaks, though his face remains neutral. The truth is so very dangerous — did he know? There was no way he could have known, Judge Jigoku had been far too careful with all of his planning (though perhaps that was more the judge's overseas ally than the judge himself). Asougi barely had any idea of the true scope of things — could this half baked detective have possibly picked up on any of it?

Either way, one thing was true: involving Naruhodou in any of this directly was dangerous. ]

That doesn't explain why you kept the truth from him for two years here. It's an excuse on top of another excuse at best.

[ When in doubt, deflect, deflect, deflect. Though there's heat to Asougi's words, the temperature seems to have cooled immensely around him. ]