[ he will stay silent for a bit longer, yeah. just sitting here, fiddling with this little thing. ]
We knew this was going to happen. [ objectively, it was the smart thing to do. target the team with the most members, and they wouldn't all be erased. ] We just didn't know who.
They wanted to protect us, more than anything. And they were convinced that if anyone could survive erasure, it's them.
...I don't want us to get confused again. We've done so badly every time there was more than one victim, barely figuring things out... We've been lucky. I don't want to rely on that again.
...Whoever it is, then they chose the wrong team to target. Sometimes I wish I could be as forgiving as other people, but I'm not. I'm not that good a person.
[ the way he says it, it's clear that kazuki isn't happy about the prospect. but he is resigned to it. ]
They could have chosen any one of us. Even if Setsu wanted to protect us, it shouldn't have been them.
...I know it's the reality that we're dealing with. Until this is over, until we find some way to break this cycle... it's going to keep happening. But it all feels so cruel.
Even if protecting you is what Setsu wanted, that doesn't lessen the pain of losing them even the slightest bit.
No, it shouldn't have. But if those messages are right, we really can't break it until the game is over. We can't cheat. We just have to let someone win, no matter how bad it gets along the way. I hate it, but I'm not going to risk screwing this up, either, if I can help it.
...It doesn't. But the least we can do is figure it out. If it were any of us, they wouldn't stop until they had an answer, so we can't, either.
Close, but we're not there yet. So we'll probably lose someone else next week, too.
[ there are only so many teams with three left, and one of them will likely lose someone this weekend. because even if they find setsu's killer, if it's a team of two - three votes can't sway anything, if the rest of them are directed elsewhere. ]
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We knew this was going to happen. [ objectively, it was the smart thing to do. target the team with the most members, and they wouldn't all be erased. ] We just didn't know who.
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[...]
I'm sorry, Kazuki. I'll do what I can to try to help you find what happened tomorrow.
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[ he closes his hand tight around that little object. ]
Thank you, Nahida. All of us will appreciate it.
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[setsu wHY.]
...we'll just have to take it one step at a time. Sort out the evidence as best we can, and... see where it leads us.
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...I don't want us to get confused again. We've done so badly every time there was more than one victim, barely figuring things out... We've been lucky. I don't want to rely on that again.
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I don't want to rely on luck, either. It should be logic and reasoning that guide us. [...] ...but the conclusions we come to may not be ones we like.
If the culprit we do find belongs to a team of two...
[what will they do, as a group?]
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[ the way he says it, it's clear that kazuki isn't happy about the prospect. but he is resigned to it. ]
They could have chosen any one of us. Even if Setsu wanted to protect us, it shouldn't have been them.
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[she sounds a little miserable when she says it.]
...I know it's the reality that we're dealing with. Until this is over, until we find some way to break this cycle... it's going to keep happening. But it all feels so cruel.
Even if protecting you is what Setsu wanted, that doesn't lessen the pain of losing them even the slightest bit.
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...It doesn't. But the least we can do is figure it out. If it were any of us, they wouldn't stop until they had an answer, so we can't, either.
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[even if it hurts, they have to keep moving forward.]
...we're close to the end of all of this, one way or another. So... just a little longer.
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[ there are only so many teams with three left, and one of them will likely lose someone this weekend. because even if they find setsu's killer, if it's a team of two - three votes can't sway anything, if the rest of them are directed elsewhere. ]
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[she nods, thinking about it. there really aren't many teams of three left at all.]
I keep telling myself to take it one step at a time, but it's still a little scary to think about what might happen in the future.
[these numbers are not great, fam.]
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Someone's going to win, though. We just have to make sure they win by enough of a margin that we can all do what we need to.
[ if only they knew what that margin was. ]
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...we'll just have to hope that there aren't any - umm, accidents.
[imagine if the team in the lead just got wiped at an execution via noise.]
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[lol this didn't age well]