[He turns to Akira, defeat so plainly written in his unbelieving eyes.]

You... you would lie to me like this!? I thought you were some sorta culty ringleader or somethin' like that!!! THE HELL, man.

[He's also slightly (slightly?) disappointed that there are no cool gang initiation tattoos that are going on. Let's face it, if Akira were Pope Akira The Snarky, Ryuji would be signing up to be his pope-hat bearer and high cardinal.]