KAINE;

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Cats? Is that the thing everyone hates?

[ She did not have the great honor of watching the movie. She skipped that class. ]

I talked to Hanayagi after the trial, but that's about it. She didn't say too much to me.

[ She didn't expect much, considering her personality. ]

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Yeah. Terrible. Definitely not something I'd recommend to anybody I actually like. [great punishment though.]

...even if she didn't say much, can I ask what she said at all? She said a lot of different things to everybody, so I'm kind of wondering if there's something there that'll make sense.

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... When I asked her why, she said because she wanted to. Just because. Which I don't buy.

[ Even if that's what Kaoruko wanted to do, Kainé thinks there has to be something more than just because. She didn't know the other girl at all, but she's seen enough cruelty to know what just because looks like. ]

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That's the answer she gave somebody else, too. But I don't think it makes sense either. We've only been here a week. Even if she was annoyed with him, that seems a little drastic as motivation.

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Some people can kill just to kill, but she didn't seem like that.

[ Some people just have that kind of vibe. ]

It's make more sense if there was something more there, but I don't know if she told anyone anything like that.

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Not that I know of. [chewing his food thoughtfully...] It'd have to be something really big she couldn't get on her own if that was the case, right? Something promised to her.

What would most people kill for?

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To get something they can't get normally. [ Like he said. ] To protect. To save. Revenge.

[ But if Kaoruko and Hiyori didn't know each other before here, it's probably not the last one. ]

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[there's a thoughtful sort of frown at that.]

Even if none of those reasons were hers, they're good ones to keep in mind if this happens again. Maybe having a motive in mind will help us figure things out next time.

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If people are obvious about it, it could.

[ Really love that they're so sure it's going to happen again. ]

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And if people aren't obvious? What do we do then?

[sometimes you're just from canons where bad things happen all the time.]

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I don't know. We do what we can.

[ Her thinking only goes so far. She's someone who likes to punch, not think. ]

We make the choices we can.

[ And hope more of their agency isn't torn from them. ]

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[there's silence while he's eating, thinking this over.]

...as long as people can live with those choices, we'll go from there then.

[hey kids could you lighten up.]

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That's all we can do, yeah?

[ what is lighten up?

She takes a bite out of her food. ]

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[there's a nod...]

Be careful out there either way.

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You, too.

[ It's strange, how people treat her here, but she doesn't want to see any of them get more hurt.

... Most of them, considering how much she beats up Nier. ]