[she nods, because... well, it makes sense to her that they'd feel bad about framing simon. she hasn't once thought that ylfa did any of it specifically to be cruel - she'd always assumed there would be regret for that.]
Right. Unless the idea is to do it and keep us in the dark so that we would honestly be able to tell people we had no idea, but... he's stressed so often that he wants us all to be honest with each other. I can't imagine him keeping that from us...
[nahida sighs at that.]
...decisions like this are impossible to be purely good or purely bad. I can understand Gerard wanting to do it so that you didn't have to... although, I do wish that he hadn't felt like he had to, and that he seemed to value himself a little more. [...] If it was Kaveh, I think he would want us to find the truth, so I'll look into it. But if it wasn't, then I need to know the truth, because I need to know why Shu's pin went missing. It would be one thing if the darkness was there, but his pin was still safely with him. But it wasn't. Until we know why that is, I... have to assume that it was deliberate in some way.
[she frowns, then pulls out her phone and shows ylfa a text.]
There's also this. I received it after we finished investigating...
[it reads:]
from user saintgeorge: I am so sorry.
[...]
It's much more coherent than the messages we got at the start of the week. And... with Shu's pin missing, the timing of it worries me.
...Oh, Haru got a couple messages, too. But they were kind of nice, mainly. They were worried he got hurt.
Also, me and Haru both got text messages, but they're kind of complicated. I think we should meet up again on Sunday and talk about them; it's not anything I think it'll help to know right away.
I think I know the message you received. Kyoko showed hers to me, and she also told me about ciphers. Kazuki showed me his, too.
But putting a pin in this until Sunday seems like a good idea to me. ...we can move it up to tomorrow night if something goes wrong at the trial, though, and plan out a strategy accordingly. [softly - ] ...if people still seem suspicious of Shu after he tells them about his pin, I'm going to tell them that if my team receives the majority vote and is innocent, I'll be volunteering to be erased, and that if Shu or Kaveh argues with me about it, it's an argument I'm going to win. Ideally, it will keep people focused on finding the true culprit if they don't want to see me dead.
[her ears droop a little at that.]
...it doesn't really feel good to play on people's emotions that way, but I'm willing to do that if Shu and Kaveh stay safe. But... it isn't necessarily just a bluff, either. If that's what happens, I do plan to pursue it. ...so, depending on the circumstances...
[she shrugs.
judging from the message she saw - maybe there will be something she could do at that point.]
Haru's is different than mine, and it had a key for the cipher on it.
[so they may actually have some intel. but she listens to nahida explain.]
I can't blame you for that. I've thought the same thing before. People who'd hurt Gerard no problem would feel pretty bad about hurting me. [which makes her mad, but whatever.]
So we were likely meant to use them in tandem all along...
[she nods, though, and frowns.]
...right. Sometimes I get the feeling that people would be more okay with hurting Shu or even Kaveh than me, and it upsets me a little. They're both still so young. But just because they look older, that's supposed to make hurting them any better?
anyway internally she's just like *fart noises* she's so mad if she had a nickel for every time this week she's seen a memory where someone she cares about decides to erase their humanity and just go be a blade of grass or a frog forever for no fucking reason she'd have two nickels which is such horseshit.]
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Right. Unless the idea is to do it and keep us in the dark so that we would honestly be able to tell people we had no idea, but... he's stressed so often that he wants us all to be honest with each other. I can't imagine him keeping that from us...
[nahida sighs at that.]
...decisions like this are impossible to be purely good or purely bad. I can understand Gerard wanting to do it so that you didn't have to... although, I do wish that he hadn't felt like he had to, and that he seemed to value himself a little more. [...] If it was Kaveh, I think he would want us to find the truth, so I'll look into it. But if it wasn't, then I need to know the truth, because I need to know why Shu's pin went missing. It would be one thing if the darkness was there, but his pin was still safely with him. But it wasn't. Until we know why that is, I... have to assume that it was deliberate in some way.
[she frowns, then pulls out her phone and shows ylfa a text.]
There's also this. I received it after we finished investigating...
[it reads:]
from user saintgeorge:
I am so sorry.
[...]
It's much more coherent than the messages we got at the start of the week. And... with Shu's pin missing, the timing of it worries me.
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Also, me and Haru both got text messages, but they're kind of complicated. I think we should meet up again on Sunday and talk about them; it's not anything I think it'll help to know right away.
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I think I know the message you received. Kyoko showed hers to me, and she also told me about ciphers. Kazuki showed me his, too.
But putting a pin in this until Sunday seems like a good idea to me. ...we can move it up to tomorrow night if something goes wrong at the trial, though, and plan out a strategy accordingly. [softly - ] ...if people still seem suspicious of Shu after he tells them about his pin, I'm going to tell them that if my team receives the majority vote and is innocent, I'll be volunteering to be erased, and that if Shu or Kaveh argues with me about it, it's an argument I'm going to win. Ideally, it will keep people focused on finding the true culprit if they don't want to see me dead.
[her ears droop a little at that.]
...it doesn't really feel good to play on people's emotions that way, but I'm willing to do that if Shu and Kaveh stay safe. But... it isn't necessarily just a bluff, either. If that's what happens, I do plan to pursue it. ...so, depending on the circumstances...
[she shrugs.
judging from the message she saw - maybe there will be something she could do at that point.]
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[so they may actually have some intel. but she listens to nahida explain.]
I can't blame you for that. I've thought the same thing before. People who'd hurt Gerard no problem would feel pretty bad about hurting me. [which makes her mad, but whatever.]
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[she nods, though, and frowns.]
...right. Sometimes I get the feeling that people would be more okay with hurting Shu or even Kaveh than me, and it upsets me a little. They're both still so young. But just because they look older, that's supposed to make hurting them any better?
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[she is neither agreeing nor disagreeing with that because i just realized it's been unusually long time without a pig showing up
so a pig rushes them and there's another memshare. lasts until 16:15!]
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anyway internally she's just like *fart noises* she's so mad if she had a nickel for every time this week she's seen a memory where someone she cares about decides to erase their humanity and just go be a blade of grass or a frog forever for no fucking reason she'd have two nickels which is such horseshit.]
Don't become grass!
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I wouldn't have tried it if I had other options...
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[i actually have a counter memshare to give you but im not gonna write it up until after trial to tbc then but geez louise.]
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For what it's worth, I won't become grass here...? Probably.