toi.

[oathic]

:/

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[oathic]

I'm not sure. Apparently, this entire mess is a long-running conflict between Master Blue and what we assumed to be the house, but maybe...

[soba]

Oh. Is it?

[ first he heard of it!!! but moving on ]

It could be someone else?

[oathic]

Maybe. Maybe something happened between Master Blue and the other half of this relationship.

[assuming blue was the recipient, anyway.]

[soba]

Have the girls said anything about it?

[oathic]

I hope you don't mean the letter, 'cause, you know. I couldn't check.

But I don't know yet.

[soba]

Well, if you guys have had this theory for a while, I assume one of you have asked them?

[oathic]

I only heard about it yesterday. You should ask Akira for the details.

[soba]

[ ugh ]

Fine. I'll do that when we don't have to deal with murders.

[ two, ]

[oathic]

Mm... yeah. I'm not surprised someone went for it.

[soba]

Neither am I. It's a pretty tempting incentive.

[oathic]

If anything, it's a surprisingly low number. We really could've had a bloodbath this week.

[soba]

It might have helped that people kept insisting it was fake.

[oathic]

Yeah.

Also, the fact that it's such a enticing motivation means that more people would be likely to go through with it. Even if you fear that it's true, you know that there's a good chance someone will act—it doesn't have to be you.

[soba]

Oh... yeah.

I guess that worked out for people who were concerned.

[oathic]

... What about you?

[soba]

[ he tilts his head ]

What about me?

[oathic]

Are you relieved?

[soba]

[ he has to think about it ]

I'm not sure if relieved is the right word.

[oathic]

How would you describe it, then?

[soba]

Relieved makes it sound like I'm happy people are dead.

[ granted he isn't saying that he's sad about it ]

[oathic]

You can have conflicting feelings.

[soba]

[ ... ]

Well, if we find out who did it, I probably won't be that upset at them.

[oathic]

[he nods.]

... Whatever else, finding the monster is the more important of the two. We should still find who did it, for the sake of their victim, but I don't think we have another Stefano on our hands, at least.

[soba]

... yeah, it doesn't seem like it, unless someone out there was just very good at waiting.

[oathic]

I seriously hope not...