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... Which one is telling you all of this?

[ sometime later - much later, actually, so that she has time to recover - Hikage goes to find Cardia again. He doesn't bring anything with him this time. Too much went on. He's not in the mood to bake - or to comfort her, as it turns out.

He speaks with the air of someone who simply wants to confirm something. ]

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... I'm not sure if I'm allowed to answer that.

[ It's steady enough, if a bit tired. ]

[ he sighs. ]

Stop it. I already know both of them. I'm working with them, too.

-- You are?

[ well geez, why didn't they just ask Hikage to do it!! ]

Obviously. [ a beat. ] Nevermind.

[ it doesn't really matter. He shouldn't be surprised she's in everyone's good graces; she's sweet and gentle and most certainly doesn't belong here. He would have enjoyed breaking her if he was still the same man he was at the beginning.

Now, he just feels sorry for her. ]

You must believe you'll get to see the dead again. That's why you're doing this.

I'm doing this because I was asked to help. I want to believe we'll all be able to get out of this soon, though.

[ She's definitely tired. ]

...

[ he looks at her for a few moments, then crosses his arms across his chest, contemplative. ]

You're fine with helping us? After all this, you should hate humans.

... Why?

Look at what we do to each other. You've been dragged down to our level. Whatever you were created for, I'm sure it wasn't for hurting or killing or having your heart broken. Am I wrong? You were given life, and we ruined it.

[ No, she was definitely created to hurt and kill, don't you know that otome dads are rarely good news-- ]

This... wasn't anyone's fault, Hikage, except the ones who brought us here. I'm sure the majority of people who have killed didn't have a choice at all.

There's a choice. They could have fought harder. They could have confessed, or tried to rally us together. In the first place, this game wouldn't work at all if we weren't fundamentally distrustful of each other.

[ if nobody lied, then the game would end immediately... but everyone lies. ]

If they had to take a life, they could have even taken their own.

I don't know what kind of rules they're forced into. Until I do, I couldn't possibly judge them.

... So for now, all I can really do is try to support everyone.

...

[ how is it that a homunculus who has been exposed to so much of humanity's evil still has more forgiveness and morality than he does? He really is a terrible person. Not that that's a surprise. ]

You'll get yourself hurt like that.

I'm aware.

[ She is. ]

But I think there's more to it than just pain.

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