KAZUKI

[rosebleed]

throws this at you at the speed of molasses

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[teenrebellion]

[ a bitter laugh. ]

I'm down. I never wanted to see any erasures or executions or whatever at all.

[ they both know it won't work that way, but it might be nice to believe it for a little bit. ]

[rosebleed]

It's uncouth. Absolutely just—

[there really was no finishing that sentence. She finishes pouring more for both. Takes her shot again.]

No. Let's just go straight from the bottle. Pouring is going to get annoying.

...She doesn't deserve this.

[teenrebellion]

[ he could make a crack about how uncouth this must be for a princess, but decides that he doesn't actually care. that's none of his business. another shot it is. ]

Works for me.

...No. She doesn't. No one here does, but if she was really defending herself, then...

[rosebleed]

[i mean he'd be right but also they're both technically underage. maybe airport law is different.]

Did you talk to her?

[teenrebellion]

[ who cares about airport law when they could be trampled by a murder horse at any moment. ]

Of course I did.

[rosebleed]

[so true bestie]

...Then you know she was. [A beat.] Sure, maybe there's still some unprecedented effect going on. We don't know what every possession looked like. Maybe some are extraordinarily subtle.

But I doubt it.

[teenrebellion]

Yeah, I know.

[ and maybe that's an achievement, too. self-defense. hadn't he just talked about that with someone this week, anyway? kazuki can't bring himself to be glad it's out of the way right now. ]

So you think the other kills were deliberate?

[rosebleed]

I do. I think...if I were a betting man...woman.

[Takes a breath.]

Then the presence of Childe's weapons seriously implicates either Ryo or Scaramouche in Maya's death. I think it's very possible he left it to either one of them. Though I have absolutely no clue why Scaramouche is dead too.