Futaba explains the ruse cruise

Futaba	Remember how I hijacked your phone during the school trip? That kinda came in handy!

Joker	How so?

Futaba	Well, remember how I put that wiretap app in Akechi's phone?
Basically that let me see GPS info for two phones: yours and his. Now what could I do with that info...?
I'd be able to tell the precise moment Sae Niijima, who had your phone, ran into Akechi!
That's when I saw my chance and beep-sent the signal to activate the Metaverse Navigator.
But there was the chance they'd just pass each other without saying a single word.
That's why we needed you to tell Sae Niijima to show the phone to Akechi!

Morgana	This plan still surprises me no matter how many time I hear it...

Futaba	Still, I couldn't just directly hack into the Metaverse Nav. It's a mysterious app, after all.
But you know how it has that bookmark function? All you have to do is push the button.
Making the phone think he was pushing that button was totally doable.
Mwehehehe... Pretty good, huh!?

Joker	*talks to Futaba again*

Futaba	It may not have looked like it, but everyone else was risking their lives too.
Though there's no doubt you were the most at risk. I mean, you actually got arrested.
...But it seems like all the drugs and stuff made you forget the details of the plan.
Want me to explain how it all went down? It might take a bit.

Joker	Definitely.

Futaba	Well, since the rest of us didn't get captured, we had to act.
We had to pretend we never wanted you to get arrested... Pretend the suicide news was a real shock...
Basically we had to act like we didn't know anything, 24/7.
The enemy knows who we are, so we couldn't let our guard down even once while you were gone.
If they had people watching us and realized what our plan was, they would have killed you immediately.
...Wanna hear more?

Joker	I do.

Futaba	Another tough part was figuring out how to get Sae Niijima and Akechi back from the Metaverse.
In order to return to reality, you have to go back to the point where you came into the Metaverse.
So, Sae and Akechi had to go through where the Nav activated, as in... the hall where they met.
Akechi would just come back the same way after the assassination. The real issue was Sae Niijima.
We needed to stop her for a moment before she headed back toward the interrogation room.
But nothing can be sent to a phone inside the Palace. So... I had to program the messages in beforehand.
In doing so, I made it seem like the messages were coming at that exact moment in time.
That part was kinda last minute, so I had to pull an all-nighter trying to get it set up...
...I'm really on a roll here! Wanna hear some more?

Joker	Yes, please.

Futaba	Lemme see, another problematic thing was...
Oh yeah! Tying Akechi up! That was really tough...

Joker	!?

Futaba	Uhhh, I obviously don't mean the real Akechi. Even if we could do that, it would ruin our plan.
The one we had to tie up was Sae Niijima's cognitive Akechi.
...This part's really complicated. I know you're tired. You sure you wanna hear all of this now?

Joker	Definitely.

Futaba	Well, we needed to lure Akechi into Sae Niijima's Palace and have him kill the cognitive [Joker].
But Akechi would have entered the Palace immediately after meeting Sae Niijima in the hallway, right?
Because of that, there was a pretty decent chance he'd run into the cognitive Akechi.
And if that happened, Akechi would've totally realized we had lured him into the Palace.

Joker	!!

Futaba	Nobody actually even thought of this possibility until the night before the assassination...
Makoto realized in the middle of the night, then it was a huge mess trying to figure out what to do.
In the end, we chose to sneak into the Metaverse while the plan was happening to tie up the cognition.
Because you told Sae to show him the phone, we expected her to chat with him for at least a bit...
So, we had a few minutes to strike after the cognitive Akechi showed up, but before the Nav activated.
It was Operation: Tie Him Up! Though it wasn't really much of an operation in the end...

Joker	*sweatdrop*

Futaba	Thankfully, Sae Niijima didn't know his true nature, so the one that appeared was an ordinary kid.
It was pretty simple surrounding him, knocking him out, and tossing him on another floor.
But man, watching Makoto's skill was super amazing... I guess she does use knuckles as her weapon...
Basically what I'm trying to say is, appreciate what everyone else did. All sorts of stuff happened.
...Phew. I just can't help but rant when I'm talking about stuff that interests me.
Sorry 'bout that. Just focus on resting up. You don't have to worry about anything else.
And seriously... well done, [Joker].