“I’m guessing this isn’t as common as I thought?” Well that’s another reason to be concerned And ask why her world is different.
Though what lead to it…… She thinks she owes him that much for all her pestering. “Well, the short answer is it’s thanks to Wakaba” she replies. “Akechi needed to look into the metaverse, you know? But he didn’t want to tell Shido about me so he dug around and found her name on a lot of papers Shido was invested in. So we went to her” She can’t help but smile as she retells the story, she really did like Wakaba. “We were trying to figure out what was wrong with me, you know? And Wakaba was super smart! I learned a lot while I was with her” And then And then And then she frowns. “… But then Shido ordered her hit.” They weren’t enough “Akechi tried to stall, I did a lot thanks to his plan but…” They weren’t enough “… Wakaba’s shadow told us she hid a full copy of her research for us. After she… Akechi told me to get it, I left him alone. But when I saw him again…” She still remembers the look on his face when he sent her off. She still remembers the first time she cried. She shakes her head. “I studied her notes vigorously, I didn’t want him to hurt like that again.” Never again. She smirks again. “And that’s how I got a hunch about changing hearts. Palaces are cognition right? If a treasure is a manifestation of their distorted desires I wondered what happened if you stole it. Though figuring out a calling card was needed was a stretch, honestly I didn’t know if it’d work. But it did! And the guy we targeted was confessing like we told him to” She remembers how Akechi looked when they realized this plan worked. She remembers how he grinned like he just saw a new door open up for him. She remembers being glad to be useful. “… did your Akechi not have that?” And that’s what worries her isn’t it? If they didn’t find that option how many more lives would he have to take. She knows Akechi wouldn’t give up on his plan. She knows she’d follow him to the depths of hell. She wonders how far he’s willing to go.
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And ask why her world is different.
Though what lead to it……
She thinks she owes him that much for all her pestering.
“Well, the short answer is it’s thanks to Wakaba” she replies.
“Akechi needed to look into the metaverse, you know? But he didn’t want to tell Shido about me so he dug around and found her name on a lot of papers Shido was invested in. So we went to her”
She can’t help but smile as she retells the story, she really did like Wakaba.
“We were trying to figure out what was wrong with me, you know? And Wakaba was super smart! I learned a lot while I was with her”
And then
And then
And then she frowns.
“… But then Shido ordered her hit.”
They weren’t enough
“Akechi tried to stall, I did a lot thanks to his plan but…”
They weren’t enough
“… Wakaba’s shadow told us she hid a full copy of her research for us. After she… Akechi told me to get it, I left him alone. But when I saw him again…”
She still remembers the look on his face when he sent her off.
She still remembers the first time she cried.
She shakes her head.
“I studied her notes vigorously, I didn’t want him to hurt like that again.” Never again.
She smirks again.
“And that’s how I got a hunch about changing hearts. Palaces are cognition right? If a treasure is a manifestation of their distorted desires I wondered what happened if you stole it. Though figuring out a calling card was needed was a stretch, honestly I didn’t know if it’d work. But it did! And the guy we targeted was confessing like we told him to”
She remembers how Akechi looked when they realized this plan worked. She remembers how he grinned like he just saw a new door open up for him.
She remembers being glad to be useful.
“… did your Akechi not have that?” And that’s what worries her isn’t it? If they didn’t find that option how many more lives would he have to take.
She knows Akechi wouldn’t give up on his plan. She knows she’d follow him to the depths of hell.
She wonders how far he’s willing to go.