mineo.

[enfangs]

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[sengokus]

[ . . . he nods.]

Yeah. She...

[he looks thoughtful about it]

.... I think she was pretty resourceful... and ready to make tough decisions even if she didn't want to. We got along, and... I'm mad whenever anyone's gone. But this one still feels cruel.

[enfangs]

Mm. Can't think of any reason why someone would want her dead in particular—but that's also life for you.

[as callous as it sounds. there's not always a reason why someone dies and someone lives.]

[sengokus]

[he just frowns]

There's a lot of aiming for civilians. It pisses me off. Between Luca-san and Omi-san and now Eleanor-san.... Like - what the hell? What have they ever done to hurt somebody, huh?

[and there's the anger]

[enfangs]

Well, we had our theories for Omi, at least...

But we'll see, if we manage to catch Eleanor's killer. I'm almost surprised someone did it when we're all forced to be nice to each other.

[sengokus]

[he pauses at that]

... I don't know. There's a new theory that there's a reason why people are killing - I don't really know the details about it but...

Maybe if there's something besides personal interest involved then they just - had to?

[enfangs]

Maybe.

Doesn't mean much unless we have any guesses about what that reason is, though.

[sengokus]

Apparently if we'd questioned Fukuda-san or the robot, we could've gotten progress with it? I have no idea what that means.

But that just means we have to catch whoever did this one.

[enfangs]

Why Fukuda? He wasn't even one of the killers?

[sengokus]

[he's

shrugging]

Just what I heard.

[enfangs]

Next thing you know it's gonna be revealed that he actually killed Grell or something.

[sengokus]

[a beat]

Given how weird he got about her corpse, I don't know about that one.

[enfangs]

Hey, who knows? I knew someone who'd preserve corpses of people she liked after killing 'em for display.

[sengokus]

[ . . . . . . . . ]

I know that serial killers aren't exactly going to be normal but holy shit.

[enfangs]

Well, it wasn't, like, random...

[sengokus]

I don't know if I want to hear about the reasoning? I feel like it'll be excessive no matter what it is?

[enfangs]

... I guess.

[it's a bit of a weird feeling for white, who can both acknowledge objectively that the stuff belle did was horrific but also normalized it and liked belle in a way.

because his standards for people are at the fucking bottom.]

But yeah, people can have weird feelings towards their victims. Not saying I actually believe Fukuda killed Grell or anything, though.

[sengokus]

[white people be friends with people who aren't serial killers]

.... they probably can. [he'll acknowledge that much.] But even if that's true, I don't know if I can always accept it, I guess.

[if he's being honest. but maybe that's wrong! maybe if he met someone earlier and liked them more, he would be more willing to let stuff go. that's hypocrisy, isn't it.

ah well.]

.... but that's the lead we got. I think we should just try to get a new one, if we can make progress tomorrow.

[enfangs]

[the funny thing is that they weren't even friends, belle also treated him like dirt]

Looks that way. Hopefully we're running out of psychopaths and delusional serial killers, at least...

[sengokus]

[ . . . . he pauses at that.]

I hope so.

But did you hear what Amane-san said about killing being the most productive indulgence here?

[enfangs]

[a beat.]

Who's Amane?

[mineo, white's memory for names,]

[sengokus]

Oh.

Uh... Amane Misa?

[enfangs]

[





thinks]

Oh, Blondie. Don't remember if I heard that, though. Then again, all the info kind of starts blurring at some point.

[sengokus]

Hmm... Vira-san mentioned it to me - it might've gotten lost during trial? But yeah....

That's what I heard - like always we gotta keep double-checking with the Avatars, and uh... they were a little busy yesterday. But it just makes me wonder if we might still have to keep dealing with murders even if it's not exactly people's first choice.

[enfangs]

[... a scoff.]

Gotta wonder how much any of this even counts as "indulging" anymore, if people don't actually wanna do it.

[sengokus]

[ . . . he shrugs.]

I mean... it's sins, right? So it's stuff that you arguably should feel some guilt about doing in the first place...