mineo.

[enfangs]

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[enfangs]

Yikes. That shitty, huh?

[sengokus]

[ . . . . he just

places his face in his hands]

I don't even know, White-kun.

I'm just... pissed we didn't figure out anything that actually mattered.

[enfangs]

... Considering how things went last time, I kind of had a feeling this would happen when it turned out we had two corpses.

[sengokus]

[ . . . . . ]

Some of it didn't go - that badly. [he wants to give credit] We found everything in enough time.

[ . . . ]

But -

... for what...?

[enfangs]

Finding shit is easy. Making sense of it is the hard part.

[sengokus]

.... and yet it still feels like we missed something. Something that somebody was hiding on their person.

[enfangs]

Seems like it. Not like we're all that strict with the checks, anyway...

[sengokus]

[ . . . ]

I think -

We need to be stricter. Even if that can be pretty hard.

[enfangs]

Maybe get that Gu Yun guy to help you out, then. He's good at bossing people around.

[sengokus]

[ . . . he pauses]

....

Do you trust him, White-kun?

[enfangs]

Huh? Not particularly, no.

[sengokus]

[ . . . ]

Then I don't really want to ask him for help.

[he just sighs.]

Don't tell anybody -

.... but I don't really trust that many people here.

[but it's just easier when everybody thinks that he's easy to manipulate]

[enfangs]

[...]

Are you saying you trust me? [if he's telling him this?] What the fuck is wrong with you?

[sengokus]

[ . . . ]

You were gonna follow me into a hallway with a killer robot with a crazy gun....

[he

doubts

that white was just gonna sit around and popcorn while it happened]

[enfangs]

[internal screeching]

I-I told you! I was bored and wanted to get out of the room!

[sengokus]

... okay. Well, I'm choosing to believe that wasn't true.

{just easily enough, and shrugging]

But I don't think you'd stab me in the back. So... yeah, I trust you. I don't want to regret it.... but I don't think I will.

[1/2]

[enfangs]

[stop don't dismiss his lies so easily

but. he looks away, looking like a mixture between startled, touched, and also maybe a little on the verge of a breakdown. it's probably fine.]

[enfangs]

[before he coughs into his hand. very smooth.]

W-Who else is on that list, anyway?

[sengokus]

[white....

mineo just pats his shoulder in confusion? doing okay?]

Hm? Oh....

.... Takeru.

[ . . . . ]

Endorsi.

[and

after a little while, he nods.

it's a short list.]

[enfangs]

[it's fine he's still just learning how to handle people being kind to him

anyway.]

... You seriously have shitty taste in people.

[sengokus]

[ . . . . he shakes his head.]

I don't think so.

[enfangs]

[.............]

So, what's your rationale? I get that Takeru's your friend from back home or whatever, so what about Endorsi?

[sengokus]

[ . . . he tilts his head]

... it's hard to put into words. And don't say that Takeru and I are friends too loudly - he'll hate it.

[even mineo's nose wrinkles a little]

But... I think that you're people who wouldn't sell me out and stab me in the back in pursuit of your wish and your goals. That if it really came down to it, I wouldn't be someone you'd sacrifice without a thought.

[ . . . ]

And... even if you did - [betray him]

I've decided I'd be okay with it, because I trust you would've done your best not to.

[enfangs]

... Sometimes I think you have the memory of a goldfish and forget the part where sacrificing people for my own sake was literally all I did for most of my life?

[...]

Well, whatever. [since he can guess what mineo's response will be—the gist of it, at least.] Endorsi and I are probably a lot alike, as much as she pisses me off. No wonder if you're stupid enough to trust one of us, you're going for the other too.

[sengokus]

[there's just a little huff]

... yeah, there's something familiar about both of you.

But... I don't really care, about what you did for most of your life. I don't think I'm in any position to make judgments about any of that.

I just know what you're like here - and I like you both just fine.