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week 6, monday

[bxkautx]

[ well she's in the airlock. past the first door, messing with the control panel to the second one. ]

... It doesn't work. [ GOOD? ]

[squirt]

[ thoughtshare is just all right ]

That's... good.

[ also, whatever, he'll just cut to the chase because this feels like a casual enough conversation topic. ]

By the way, did you kill Kasuga? For Setsu?

[bxkautx]

[ oh. okay. WELL. i'm glad it's not emotionshare anymore. ]

... I don't really know Setsu.

[squirt]

[ thank god ]

Maybe not. You guys are just the ones who'd understand what they're going though the most.

[ a pause. more gently, ]

...It doesn't matter to me who did it. You, Hoshino, whoever. But if you know who it was, you can tell them Rin and I can't see the new locked achievements.

[bxkautx]

[ this doesn't seem to comfort her much and she's ignoring that first thing, but... ]

One of the locked achievements is for everyone from one game killing someone. I don't know about the other.

[squirt]

[ scrolls his phone a bit in thought. ]

...Mm. Maybe it has something to do with more than one of us. Like the "Wolf" achievement.

[bxkautx]

Maybe.

We unlocked it either way, but... I guess knowing would make it easier to know what we don't need to bother with from now on? [ shrugs... ]

[squirt]

...We've only got a week or two of this left. I don't want to waste any lives on repeat achievements.

[ his thoughts are at the hidden heroes achievement -- if it'd been a partner kill, he wouldn't have needed to involve rin last week at all. ]

[bxkautx]

I did get a message today that said we've passed the threshold of achievements needed.

[squirt]

[ he looks quetly relieved, though it's tentative. ]

Do you think that means people will stop killing?

[bxkautx]

I doubt it. People like killing. [ has spent too much time in hell to believe otherwise. ]

[squirt]

Do they...? [ well it's not like there's been any lack of murder here but ] Isn't it mostly because they're getting something out of it?

[bxkautx]

People kill each other all the time in Hell. Just for fun.

... Regardless, there are still those items, so it's not like there isn't anything left to gain.

[squirt]

...It didn't hurt in the Reaper's Game to have "extra" points either.

[ he expects there's some cool twist where they need another ten bonus milestones or whatever. no comment on people who murder for fun, not his wheelhouse. he pushes a hand through his hair, tired. ]

Sorry if I surprised you.

[bxkautx]

Mm. So.

[ it could still happen again and she's not getting her hopes up. also she decides to misunderstand the apology. ]

It doesn't really surprise me. Anyone's capable of killing when it comes down to it. Especially if they're backed into a corner by circumstance.

[squirt]

[ she decides to!!! ]

I meant about asking if you did it. Or... guessing why. [ whichever ]

[bxkautx]

Nothing wrong with trying to figure things out...

[squirt]

There is if I hurt your feelings...?

[ why is he explaining why he should be apologizing this is obvious ]

[bxkautx]

You didn't mean to. So it doesn't count.

[squirt]

...I think how you feel is more important than what my intentions were.

[bxkautx]

... It's really fine. I don't expect anyone to understand.

[squirt]

I'd like to.

[ understand, that is. ]

[bxkautx]

I... know that people don't know me very well. And I barely know them either.

But assumptions can get tiring.

[squirt]

[ he nods ]

What do we get wrong most?

[bxkautx]

It's... scattered. And it's hard to understand, so I'm not—blaming you or anyone else.

[ anyway sorry she's a nightmare but she does just kind of shrug like that's the end of the explanation. sometimes it's less about it not being specifically right and more that she just doesn't like there being a guess at all. ]