Camp: private conversations

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Yes, like that. Still, I can't be for sure, not with the resources I have here at the camp.

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...Did Ryoji ever make it out? As himself, anyway.

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I probably shouldn't tell you about what happened to former campers.

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Why not?

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What they experienced and what you experience will be different. Comparing yourselves to them is just setting yourself up for failure.

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Is there even a way to succeed?

Assuming dying is failure, of course.

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Survive for eight weeks. That is the way to succeed.

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Will the survivors truly be allowed to return to where they came from, just like that?

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The survivors will be in their home worlds, yes.

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And the failures?

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You have already seen what happens to them here. You probably don't want to know what happens to them afterwards.

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Are you even capable of telling me?

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Not if we both want to walk out of this room alive, no.

[She's got bosses, remember?]

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[He sighs, but... doesn't press the topic! Amazing.]

New subject. Why are you protecting Stan?

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Because he has blocks on his memory to preserve his sanity, and you all keep triggering those blocks. My superiors said it won't affect his mind, but I don't exactly trust them on that.

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So his memories are being messed with.

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As far as he knows, this is a normal summer camp. When he talks about pranks? That's what he actually sees.

The only time he sees the truth is when he's forced into a situation where he has to see it. Which is why I threw you towards the lake at the trial, you were close to doing that.

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Thank you for the warning.

[His dignity, Red.]

So we just have to kill each other quietly without letting him in on it?

[Wow, that's some bitterness.]

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Ideally, yes.

[...wow that sounded cruel.]

Sorry, I shouldn't have said it that way. But I made a promise to someone, and I intend on keeping it.

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This is a camp designed to make us murder each other.

[Her words, though blunt, are honest. Mitsuru values that.]

...Was this a positive promise?

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It was a promise to protect someone.

[I mean, it's probably obvious, but yes. She promised to protect Stan.]

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Did you make that promise to someone in this camp? ...Currently or formerly.

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I did, yes.

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[He digests this information in silence, eyebrows knitting together. This is Stan's first year, so what does this mean...?]

...Was someone here who knew him outside of camp?

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It was.

You can't ever tell Stan about this, you realize?