retellers | AUDIENCE: BLANCA

Well, that's very kind of you.

Sleeping better?

I'm proud to report I haven't collapsed again since then?

You didn't answer the question.

I suppose you will still tell me not to worry about why that happened...? Aside from "I don't get enough sleep"?

What kind of answer are you hoping for?

Not a dodging one, for once.

... I'm curious as to why this matters. I'll fulfill my role to the end, and won't let this interfere—isn't that enough?

Unexpected things happen all the time.

[It's said a bit pointedly. As in, it happened today, for one.]

In that case, interrogating me isn't going to change anything, is it?

[He concedes by lowering his eyes a bit. It looks like he wants to say something else, but instead he just turns to leave.]

Sorry for troubling you.

[ ...

he sighs, a hand subconsciously going up to his neck. ]

Wait.

What is it that you want, Blanca-san?

[ it's not asked accusingly, but like. a genuine question. ]

[He stops and glances back.]

Tomorrow, when you make the attempt to return the removed... what kind of disturbance is it going to create?

... That, I don't know. I'm sorry.

Just give me an educated guess then. Do you think what you're going to do has the possibility of getting the attention of the creature eating the nova?

If it's even a creature at all.

My educated guess is that I don't know if this virus even exists.

Is there a reason why you think that?

[He sounds curious rather than suspicious.]

Well, I'm not one of the Leaders who actually obtained knowledge of the virus this week, as I just heard about it secondhand from them, so take what I say with a grain of salt.

But it's the monster we've been talking about these past weeks—the same monster we never did detect any changes in or learn much about. My last report from the previous cycle didn't mention anything about it either.

So, honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if you were just given a common enemy to focus on, however nebulous.

I had been wondering why your last report didn't mention anything about how exactly we completed that cycle, only we had planned to start over to make sure we had everyone. But what do I know? You say things in certain ways all the time; I assumed you might have left it out on purpose.

But everyone I asked about confirming the monster, they hadn't heard anything of it, which was odd. Followers of leaders who have been at the top of the board, getting memories back; people receiving letters from the removed.

Though I've received two, and they have been totally censored.

Right, those... Can I see them?

[He hesitates a moment,

but then finally turns back to offer Fox the PHS that has the censored note from the other week, and the one received at the end of last week.]

[ he looks them over.

...

after a long pause— ]

... I think someone might just be screwing with you, Blanca-san.

[A pause.]

Are they from Kano?

I have no idea. But from what I've seen, messages get blocked out all over the place, whether it's relevant info or trivial. Spaces, punctuation, etc.

The fact that your messages only have all the words neatly blocked suggests to me that it was done deliberately by the sender.

At first, I thought it was simply because I couldn't read, but then when I got a similar one with the punctuation, and no one in our little group who received a similar letter from the removed for comparison...

Well, I didn't pursue it for a reason.

Pretty sure someone might just be messing with you, then. There's no rule saying that the removed have to use their messages to help you, after all.

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