[ Lea's not particularly looking for her, but he doesn't seem to mind running into Four on his way through the trees in the air area, though he looks a bit surprised ]
[ Four is walking kind of aimlessly, but her expression is displeased. She may have been difficult about complying to strip searches and getting sniffed, but hearing or reading you got voted for still kind of sucks?
She shakes her head. ]
No, not particularly. [ ... ] I fear I might have said something that may have bothered you during the trial. I apologize if I did.
[ Lea's not that bothered by the vote against him, considering how ... intense, the floundering got. He does seem a bit embarrassed at Four's apology, though. ]
Oh, that. Nah, it's no big deal. I just... think there's some stuff I did last week I coulda dealt with better.
I took a crash course in optimism recently, it's real hard to shake off.
[ is that a joke or is he serious? a mystery ]
Well... we have enough to figure out Junna's, I think. We just didn't put 'em together. [ tokidoki is like. a lost cause because they never found his location, but he doesn't want to dwell on that. ] The trial might be over, but it's not like the stuff we learned from it was wiped from our minds. We can still figure it out.
The water ability is one thing we have... the state the casino was in... We can maybe figure out how, but what about who? It's hard to pinpoint unless we know who has what element.
[ Four can't say she knows anyone well enough to know who would or wouldn't murder someone like Junna, whom she also doesn't really know. ]
How might help us figure out who. I didn't know Junna, but... She wouldn't have just gone to the casino for fun, right? If she wasn't dragged there, maybe it meant she went there willingly, the same way Nana did for Futaba.
[ he's. giving an example, here, because his player is dumb and has a headache just thinking about who might've done it ]
[ he falters a little at that, scratching the back of his head ]
Honestly? I don't know. We can't exactly keep an eye on everyone when we're forced into that weird sleep every time something happens. We need to figure out a way to identify the corrupted before they attack.
It's a difficult problem to tackle. Is it possible to identify the corrupted that way at all? Life here would be simpler if someone could see if someone was corrupted, but that would be wishful thinking, wouldn't it?
I don't know. [ he taps against his chin ] I heard from Lune that there are people with extra powers beyond the partner one. He couldn't tell me how many or what they were, but... Maybe one of 'em could be like that.
Nothing wrong with hoping. There's gotta be a reason behind all the special powers, right? If the partner bond one is any hint, then they're meant to help us out.
[ can't wait until he's fucking wrong and no one ever helps them in any way ]
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Hey. Am I interrupting something?
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She shakes her head. ]
No, not particularly. [ ... ] I fear I might have said something that may have bothered you during the trial. I apologize if I did.
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Oh, that. Nah, it's no big deal. I just... think there's some stuff I did last week I coulda dealt with better.
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She's a little confused now, however. ]
... When I said you didn't know, we all didn't know, you elected not to answer. Was it about that? Or am I completely missing the mark?
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[ he shrugs after a little bit, idly playing with something in the pocket of his stupid hedgehog hoodie ]
Truth is, I had a hunch it might be Mary from the get-go.
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Because... you were partners? Or... from something else?
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Just some stuff she said. But I wasn't sure, and... I didn't exactly want to be right.
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She was a sweet girl. I don't think most of us wanted to be right. ... Has this second week been treating you any better?
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... I guess. It's kind of a messed up thing to say, though, considering.
[ there's a lot of like. dead people and potentially dead people around here right now. ]
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[ She looks down. ]
How many more... will be lost?
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'Sides, if we start to think of it like that, we won't get anywhere. Yeah, things are pretty dire, but we can't give up 'cause of it.
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That's optimistic of you. ... All right. We can't give up, but we didn't find all the guilty parties. What do we do about that?
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[ is that a joke or is he serious? a mystery ]
Well... we have enough to figure out Junna's, I think. We just didn't put 'em together. [ tokidoki is like. a lost cause because they never found his location, but he doesn't want to dwell on that. ] The trial might be over, but it's not like the stuff we learned from it was wiped from our minds. We can still figure it out.
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The water ability is one thing we have... the state the casino was in... We can maybe figure out how, but what about who? It's hard to pinpoint unless we know who has what element.
[ Four can't say she knows anyone well enough to know who would or wouldn't murder someone like Junna, whom she also doesn't really know. ]
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[ he's. giving an example, here, because his player is dumb and has a headache just thinking about who might've done it ]
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[ It's a mystery, and she's pushing it off because her player is too dumb to try to puzzle this out right now. ]
But with that in mind, what do you think would be the best way to protect people next week?
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Honestly? I don't know. We can't exactly keep an eye on everyone when we're forced into that weird sleep every time something happens. We need to figure out a way to identify the corrupted before they attack.
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It's a difficult problem to tackle. Is it possible to identify the corrupted that way at all? Life here would be simpler if someone could see if someone was corrupted, but that would be wishful thinking, wouldn't it?
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I don't know. [ he taps against his chin ] I heard from Lune that there are people with extra powers beyond the partner one. He couldn't tell me how many or what they were, but... Maybe one of 'em could be like that.
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Truly? That would be wonderful, if so. I hope that's a power someone has.
[ Maybe.... they can save them from scrambling in the last hour of a trial someday. ]
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Nothing wrong with hoping. There's gotta be a reason behind all the special powers, right? If the partner bond one is any hint, then they're meant to help us out.
[ can't wait until he's fucking wrong and no one ever helps them in any way ]
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You're right. Hearing that... gives me more hope. Thank you.
[ even if no one helps them out in any way, leaxel is somehow good with pep talks here and now. ]
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Hey, no problem. We're all meant to be working together, right?
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Yes, we should be. [ If you don't think about corruption. ]
... Thank you again. I'll leave you be now.
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