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[.........OUT OF ALL THE THINGS.]

...my bad. [he says, like he picked this on purpose.] That...probably wasn't the greatest experience then, was it?

[sometimes you almost drown in a digital ocean, it's fine.]

[amain]

... No, but I can't say I'm unfamiliar.

[ me: what will ty give me i see digigays in the ocean, well you can have this instead of something more serious. Pretend it's all the times that Nier somehow slips into water/sand and barely manages to drag his ass out. ]

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[i'm losing my mind. taichi's just...you know. YOU KNOW.

...you know. it eventually fades but he's giving nier the most incredulous look.]

...have you ever considered actually learning?

[amain]

[ ty....... maybe i will give you another thing later to pair any memshare you get from Kainé. Like-minded idiots trigger similar memories in each other. Also ara has told me that kainé and yamato vibe so i don't like the comparisons here ]

I learned here.

[ Please. ]

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[i'm crying i have to bully ara for a memshare also...yeah that tracks, actually.

meanwhile, taichi's just giving nier a dead-eyed stare.]

How well.

[if he pushes nier in a pool would he just float now...]

[amain]

[ Hello? Nier's eyebrows arch. ]

Are you planning to kill me?

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What? No! [jesus christ.] I'm just asking in case anything comes up. You know how weird this school is.

[amain]

[ Stop... That gets him to laugh. ]

I was kidding. [ Anyway. ] I do know how to swim now.

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[rude :( but he does grin slightly.]

Good to know. The more we can do to keep everybody a little safer, the better.

[seriously how has no one drowned someone in the pool yet. terrifying.]

[amain]

[ Yeah, how has no one drowned yet? Where is our pool death so no one will EVER USE IT? Because most people's corpse to water ratio is 1:1 pool. ]

Yeah, as safe as possible... Do you still think that these are involuntary?

[ The murders. It really is murder talk in seasonality's version of a closet. Nier pulls this out. ]

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[hateful. also i'm crying. taichi stares blankly at the costume before batting at one of the little arms with a shrug.]

I don't know if I would say it's involuntary, but I do think there's something pressuring them to do this and not talk about it. Blackmail, something. I haven't figured out what yet.

[amain]

[ Nier has never seen a dinosaur before in person (WHO hAS). ]

True. I did hear that Rupert planned both murders, then Ichinose said Kaoruko did, too. [ ... ] It's just people heavily considering it back in trial made me want to believe the same thing.

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[taichi has. taichi literally has a dinosaur.]

I asked him why he picked the two of them. He said he didn't have a particular reason. Does that sound right to you?

[amain]

[ Nier saw that, but also found it hard to tell it was a dinosaur because Aguman is actually a chibisaur. He wants to ask about that, but first this. ]

That lines up with what was told to Winter, yeah.

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It doesn't make any sense. Maybe they were just people picked at random, sure, fine, but the fact that it was twice in a row is what doesn't sit right with me.

[amain]

Personally, I'd think they chose people they weren't close to so it's easier.

[ It's definitely easier for him to consider killing people he barely knows. ]

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I don't know if Rupert knew either of his victims that well, so that's one way to look at it. But it still doesn't answer why it was back to back.

[amain]

... The only explanation I can make up is that whatever they're working towards can only be done by killing multiple people.

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...mm. Rupert seemed to be implying we're all still on the same side. Killers included. So what, this school's running on sacrifices?

[amain]

[ Plainly: ]

I don't like it.

[ Cause what the fuck? All of that is unsettling. Awful. Bad. ]

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Me either. [he pushes aside a banana costume, and then an apple.]

So what do we do next? At this rate it almost feels like you have to kill someone yourself to learn anything about it.

[amain]

[ Taichi... Why are you saying it like that. Who taught you this. Nier finds the grotesque grape outfit. ]

I'd say we should find the last maybe... Two? Killers, but they might not be able to tell us, either.

[ rip ]

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[he would prefer not to???? but look.]

That's my point. But it's not like we have leads on Sieghart so I have no idea where to start looking.

[amain]

Yeah... Sieghart's case was all over the place, but it seemed like we got everything we could?

[ He thinks. ]

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The problem is that people know what we're looking for now. It's going to be easier and easier for killers to hide clues if they know what we're expecting. I wonder if that's what happened here.