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[criminaljustice]

Who: BAD END=DEAD END and a guest
Where: BAD END=DEAD END
When: Day 37, post-game

[. . . well, that sucked.]

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[criminaljustice]

[ever have a suspicious feline eye you as you enter a room? yeah, that's Boss. because. he only knows you from Haruto memories, so.]

[forthetainted]

[he notices but also seems kind of disoriented by everyone being nice and offering him coffee]

[criminaljustice]

[that's because they're legit good dudes and guess who is not as legit good.]

... if you're here to mediate things, I don't think politics is what we need right now.

[so like. this better be heartfelt as fuck, because otherwise...]

[forthetainted]

I'm not any good at politics, and I'm not here to apologize. But I agreed with someone that it would still be better if I checked on you guys than just ignored it.

I can leave though, if that's what you want.

[criminaljustice]

No, you're fine.

I just wanted to be clear that if you want to talk alliances or We Did This But Don't Do that--that's the kind of thing we're not up for.

... Silver doing okay?

[forthetainted]

...yeah. He's okay. Sanguine seems to be doing pretty good too, considering...

[criminaljustice]

He's not, but it helps him to try being okay anyway.

[that's how you combat trauma.]

... would've been worse for him if they both died, probably.

[forthetainted]

There was another option.

None of you were ever going to be the ones to stop it?

[criminaljustice]

Maybe we were putting too much trust in others to solve the puzzle... but we've been burned by not putting in enough trust before.

Your unit mate who made the plea even was nice enough to remind me of it the other day.

[spoilers: it wasn't that nice but shrugs.

nah, they weren't gonna.]

[forthetainted]

Aa, we got shit about that in one of the early games, too. I suppose we'll get more, now. But it's not wrong.

[criminaljustice]

People're gonna be upset, but it'll pass. There's higher priorities, anyway.

... not that I'm... okay. With how things went. On a personal level. But I get why it happened that way.

[forthetainted]

[just nods]

Like I said, I'm not here to apologize. But I don't expect you to be okay with it. Ah... actually, everyone's acting a lot more okay with it than I was ready for...

[criminaljustice]

It's not like you guys were the ones running the game.

[forthetainted]

Still, I can't promise to ever be that forgiving.

[criminaljustice]

No one can promise anything, but as long as you know what the consequences are for acting out, then I guess we'll just have to deal with it as it comes up.

We don't go looking to hurt anyone, despite how some games play out, if it helps any.

[forthetainted]

Alright. I believe you.

I can get out of here. Thanks for letting me in.

[criminaljustice]

Thanks for checking up on us.

[forthetainted]

[gives him a brief nod and lets himself out]