rizomata | PC: Argalia

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Hm... well, Chiemi and I both stayed in the same place, which was a surprise~ She wanted to talk, first, so we had tea while she wrote her note, and then... as they say, we decided to get down to business.

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rizomata

So, what, you had tea and politely agreed to kill each other? Or was that decision made before then?

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riverbero

Oh, I already planned to kill her. I thought she'd understand, and she did.

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rizomata

Okay... well I don't, so do you mind explaining how you came to that decision?

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riverbero

Well, last week's "accident" had to be arranged somehow. I wanted to find out what would happen if someone simply planned to act on their own-- would something else still be arranged? Would whoever is running this supposed competition even know about those plans?

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rizomata

... You're not saying you did all this just to test how it would work?

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riverbero

Why not do it?

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rizomata

I don't know, because it's insane to kill someone without a better reason than that?

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riverbero

You say that like you think it's something wrong.

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rizomata

Wh...

[there's fury in her eyes. her hands ball into fists.]

Of course it is! Are you stupid!?

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riverbero

Do you think so? Well, but most are too constrained by what they think is right or wrong to think otherwise.

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rizomata

[she looks livid.]

I'll believe that you're enough of a lunatic to see nothing wrong with that, but Chiemi? She really accepted that!?

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riverbero

Oh, she still fought back, but she understood my reasons.

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rizomata

You're lying.

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riverbero

I'm not.

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rizomata

[she just stares him down for a little bit... but then gives up on arguing that. there's no point.]

There's something else I want to know.

Did you see her wake up? And... when you encountered her, did she have any injuries already?