AUDIENCE: SHIGEO

[retellers]

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[Wow!! He's still watching the show!

. . . Oh, he called Swan here.]

Hello. Um. . .

[Sorry, it's going to take a second.]

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[ they tilt their head, arms behind their back ]

...Yeeeees?

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I wanted to say I was sorry for hurting your feelings this week!

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Oh! [ they look a little embarrassed ] Um! It's fine, I guess you didn't mean to.

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I didn't, but . . . I made it sound like you weren't trying hard, and you did try hard.

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Yeah, for all the good that did.

[ they cross their arms, kicking at the floor again. less violently than they kicked the wall, though ]

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It didn't, but - it's still important to try, right? Maybe it will work, one time.

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Maybe. [ there's a wan smile ] I just feel bad. I think we were freaking you guys out too, on top of... everything else.

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[A swan smile

A swan smile, Zia

A swan smile]

You didn't freak me out. I was glad that you tried!

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[ i hate this so much i nearly didn't tag you back ]

Trying's the least we can do. We can't help at all when it comes to this thing.

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[swan smile]

The Realm. . .

Do you know why it's like this? Why it keeps forcing things to happen?

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The Realm doesn't think of things the way we do. It sees... patterns and assumptions, and works off of that. Memories. It doesn't understand feelings or morality, really.

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[This is. . . the first explanation of the Realm he's kind of been able to understand.]

Is there any way we could change the patterns?

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[ they seem happy mob seems to get it tbh ]

Maybe? But it definitely won't work if people keep killing each other, ughhhh. [ they hide their face in their hands ]

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Ugh.

[He doesn't react dramatically, but he agrees.]

Killing people is bad.

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Right? How is that so hard to understand!

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Swan. . .

Do you know about whether anyone told Viridian-san something that encouraged them to kill?

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... Virid implied he was asked to kill. But the only person who could've done that would have to be his Leader.

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Do you think that's true? Do you think Viridian-san's leader told him to do something like that?

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It's awful, but it's the only thing that makes sense. I just... don't understand why they'd do it.

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I know you aren't able to tell me, but do you know who Viridian-san's leader was?

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If I did, I'd have taken them down weeks ago.

[ possibly by bodily tackle. ]

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[Swan is actually so valid.]

. . . Mm. In the voting, we have to try and guess what team somebody is on, right?

How come? There's no way to know something like that!

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I have... no idea? I guess the Realm really wants you guys to figure it all out, but I think just getting the actual culprit is good enough.

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If we got that all right, would something happen?