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Another infuriating question for you. Do you believe there's only one answer for every question?

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No.

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A lot of the time, the questions you guys ask have answers that aren't always so straightforward.

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I mean, yeah, but you can still do your best to answer them.

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What makes you think we aren't?

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I know you're trying to help, and saying this makes me a huge hypocrite, but it makes it a little easier if you just answer with "it's not straightforward" than asking me and making me answer it, you know.

Unless "make everything a question" is actually part of your rules, in which case wow, even Visnu didn't make us do that.

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It's more like a loophole. It's kind of like how we know things during trials, but we can't always just flat-out tell you. It's much better if you answer them for yourself and we can probably confirm your answers.

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I mean, you told me five seconds later anyway.

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Well maybe I shouldn't have.

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[he sighs, scratching the back of his neck.]

Sorry, my bad. I know you're doing your best.

[he's let the mask drop a tad too much, he supposes—a remnant of the weekend and a product of knowing that by the end of this week, he really will be completely alone.]

Akira's note about Stefano—my guess is that it came from one of us? In that case, do they somehow have access to info the rest of us don't?

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[She can appreciate that he's at least still trying and that he apologizes which is why she considers that.]

...sometimes help comes in ways that aren't entirely expected. Your instincts seem to be pretty good these days.

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... Right. So did Master Blue just decide that he liked certain people here, or what?

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It's not really about popularity. It's like we've been saying. The Master invites people of interest that have great potential. Information seems to spread pretty quickly around here anyway.

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But at least one person here has special privileges, it sounds like.

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[A two-handed shrug!]

I think if you think about it you have the answers already, sir. That's my take on it. Have you asked Akira? He's pretty smart!

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Well, at the time, he just kind of went "I don't know" at me. Not convinced he wasn't playing dumb, but if he didn't want to tell, he didn't want to tell.

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...you could always try again to pick his brain for thoughts and tell him I sent you. [Don't do that.] Akira requests to see us a lot.

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He does seem pretty fond of all of you.

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We're friends. [She. Hm. Well the other two might not agree or say so but Peach is pretty sure Akira's very nice to both of her sisters so whatever.] Plus he tends to ask a lot of questions and talks to people anyway.

[oathic]

He's a good kid.

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One of the best. But then again there's a large amount of decent people among your group. It's nice to see. [All the reason Peach encourages everyone to talk to each other.]

[oathic]

Not so nice is the part where those decent people are being encouraged to kill each other.

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Pretty sure we can all agree on that. [So...what do they do about it?] There's still time.

[oathic]

Still time for what? Convince everyone not to?

Humans aren't that easily dissuaded.

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[Her ears flatten a little.]

All the more reason to be talking to the humans. [...] But yeah. Still time for that.