I think Mithra wouldn’t confess first but ask akira if he’s in love with him and say it in such a very plain, casual way, zero fanfare just a question that sort of acts like a statement, I think Akira would dance around it but it would be something where he’d admit it at one point and Mithra would take a lot longer to really understand the type of impact confessing has (especially in an emotionally constipated man).