Or perhaps. . . here is the agreement I can make with you. There was another set of footprints there, with Crow. If you tell me all you can about the arrangement between yourself and Rupert, who is gone, I will not ask you anything about who those belong to.
[He's frowning, clearly a little frustrated, but he doesn't seem angry or upset, just trying to figure out the piece that he's missing.]
If you are protecting someone, I suppose it must be Taichi, Luxanna, or Yamato. And I hardly want to see any harm come to one of those three, either. My guess would be Luxanna. She felt off to me this weekend. But it doesn't matter so much.
. . . If you're helping one of those three, then. No one deserves to have to become accustomed to spilling blood at that age. It twists your heart, it ruins you. It ruined me. So . . . I am glad that you are protecting them.
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[He approaches her table at the cafeteria slowly, then.]
I think we've both had a terrible weekend, ja? Do you mind if we talk?
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[and she is—as much as she expresses anything. some of the tension is leaving her shoulders just from the way he approached the conversation.]
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[He will sit down, then.]
. . . Probably obvious I want to try my hand at asking you questions about the deaths.
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[He frowns, massages his jaw a little.]
Or perhaps. . . here is the agreement I can make with you. There was another set of footprints there, with Crow. If you tell me all you can about the arrangement between yourself and Rupert, who is gone, I will not ask you anything about who those belong to.
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Rupert and I... simply had the same intentions at the same time.
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Then what should we focus on?
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[she shakes her head.]
There's some things I just... can't help with.
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Are you protecting the others? Is that what this is?
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[He's frowning, clearly a little frustrated, but he doesn't seem angry or upset, just trying to figure out the piece that he's missing.]
If you are protecting someone, I suppose it must be Taichi, Luxanna, or Yamato. And I hardly want to see any harm come to one of those three, either. My guess would be Luxanna. She felt off to me this weekend. But it doesn't matter so much.
Will you help kill someone else this weekend?
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[He puts his hands in his pockets and sighs.]
. . . If you're helping one of those three, then. No one deserves to have to become accustomed to spilling blood at that age. It twists your heart, it ruins you. It ruined me. So . . . I am glad that you are protecting them.
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I'm sorry I can't help you more.
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[If she isn't going to say more, she isn't going to say more. It's fine.]
You may be right, and knowing more won't help us.
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You caught both murderers.
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I couldn't coexist with Mollymauk's killer, I admit that much, but overall. . . preventing death is worth much more than finding killers.
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