. . . we made an alliance with Light and Kaiba on Monday, after we found you, actually.

[so no, not from the beginning]

I'm hoping that'll be enough for him to trust that I'm not the one responsible, especially since it'd be pretty stupid of me to out my role to him the Monday before I planned on killing someone in our alliance.

From what I understand, though, his reasoning behind targeting Akane was because he wasn't sure what lowering someone's GPA would do. I dunno his reasoning for Velvet, and I didn't see anyone in the pool this week.