I was hoping it would be different once it was over, but the rules in place really doesn't want to make it easy.
[ ...giving her a gentle squeeze before he lets her go. Leaning back towards the fire. ]
I also believe you may have had a hand with killing Minako. I don't know if you're the paw prints we keep finding or if you're helping them out, but small feet keeps coming up.
But I don't think you would be doing it if you had a choice.
[That, at least, she says outright, and her gaze returns to the fire as Dazai lets go of her.]
...and I do not believe that anyone here wants to kill anyone. We are all simply... bound by this place's awful rules. [...] But I certainly could not blame anyone who did not see it that way.
I know. I won't hold it against you if you did kill. Between certain things being set in motion to guarantee a kill each week and that we all have someone we want to save here. It's easier for the others to swallow if they find the culprit, while I just want to know what's really going on.
...Dimitri? He certainly had nothing to do with her death.
[That is, perhaps, not what he was getting at.]
Well... finding a culprit is a part of knowing what is really going on, is it not? But I do think that today was... I suspect there was meant to be more at stake than simply identifying a killer.
Still, if it would have brought everyone some measure of peace... I wish that we had.
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Date: 2020-07-19 11:48 am (UTC)[Well, she doesn't seem mad about him having suspected her, at least? She doesn't really seem much of anything, other than, you know, sad.]
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Date: 2020-07-19 04:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-07-19 05:03 pm (UTC)[Confession rules, and all. Anyone can say "I didn't do it" - but someone among them has to.]
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Date: 2020-07-19 05:46 pm (UTC)[ ...giving her a gentle squeeze before he lets her go. Leaning back towards the fire. ]
I also believe you may have had a hand with killing Minako. I don't know if you're the paw prints we keep finding or if you're helping them out, but small feet keeps coming up.
But I don't think you would be doing it if you had a choice.
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Date: 2020-07-19 07:37 pm (UTC)[That, at least, she says outright, and her gaze returns to the fire as Dazai lets go of her.]
...and I do not believe that anyone here wants to kill anyone. We are all simply... bound by this place's awful rules. [...] But I certainly could not blame anyone who did not see it that way.
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Date: 2020-07-19 07:55 pm (UTC)[ Since she could say it outright there. ]
I know. I won't hold it against you if you did kill. Between certain things being set in motion to guarantee a kill each week and that we all have someone we want to save here. It's easier for the others to swallow if they find the culprit, while I just want to know what's really going on.
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Date: 2020-07-19 11:55 pm (UTC)[That is, perhaps, not what he was getting at.]
Well... finding a culprit is a part of knowing what is really going on, is it not? But I do think that today was... I suspect there was meant to be more at stake than simply identifying a killer.
Still, if it would have brought everyone some measure of peace... I wish that we had.