[malik doushite.... Itsuki's quiet for a long moment, which should probably be answer enough.]
I feel blindsided.
[has he processed it? he thinks he has, with the help of a few people. but emotions are complicated, itsuki should know -- always advising people about theirs.]
[ malik isn't that emotionally intelligent; he doesn't know what to do with this answer. he can see that this is affecting itsuki, but he can't feel it. can't connect with it. ]
I don't think you're the only one. He was quite gregarious.
This isn't going to get any easier, if this cycle is going to repeat itself each week.
Last week, there seemed like there might be some... interference. People not acting like themselves. It could be the same thing again, and if it is... Maybe there's something that predisposes them to this fate. It's the second time this has happened, so if there is a pattern... it should start emerging.
...I just want to know whether or not they're being manipulated, like Ma-kun and Ryu-kun. I want to know if that's something we're all going to have to expect from here on out.
[ asking in earnest, without any hint of smugness. ]
If they are... If it's random... That doesn't give you a workable pattern, does it? Or is it because you want to feel sympathy for who is being controlled?
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I feel blindsided.
[has he processed it? he thinks he has, with the help of a few people. but emotions are complicated, itsuki should know -- always advising people about theirs.]
...But yeah, I'm sad.
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I don't think you're the only one. He was quite gregarious.
This isn't going to get any easier, if this cycle is going to repeat itself each week.
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[it's hard to tell what Itsuki's agreeing to, perhaps both of those sentiments]
We barely know what it's like -- or if there's even a pattern. Maybe it'll be me next week, or you.
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Too bad.
[ anyway, ]
Last week, there seemed like there might be some... interference. People not acting like themselves. It could be the same thing again, and if it is... Maybe there's something that predisposes them to this fate. It's the second time this has happened, so if there is a pattern... it should start emerging.
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Itsuki shoots him a look, but now he's talking about logic --]
Something that predisposes them... [...like friendship? loved ones? in that case...] You think it was someone who cared about them?
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It could be. Isn't that what happened last week?
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but if he isn't looking, then he might not see Itsuki's expression. unfortunately, he'll probably hear him laugh,
it's not particularly loud or long, but it's sudden. and it stops just as quickly,]
Yeah... It did, didn't it? I guess it could happen this time.
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Well, I don't think Kashuu did it. Or Yasusada. [ but for entirely different reasons.
he's just kind of eying itsuki, uncertain. ]
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[not from the complexity of it, but from the idea that he has to suspect anyone in the first place... but that's what this place is, isn't it]
And yet, I can't stop thinking about the reason why.
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[ comforting, isn't it, itsuki? ]
Maybe if you're lucky, we'll catch the right person and they'll give you an answer.
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...I just want to know whether or not they're being manipulated, like Ma-kun and Ryu-kun. I want to know if that's something we're all going to have to expect from here on out.
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[ asking in earnest, without any hint of smugness. ]
If they are... If it's random... That doesn't give you a workable pattern, does it? Or is it because you want to feel sympathy for who is being controlled?
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...I think I'd feel sympathy either way, but... No, I just want to know if I have to prepare myself.