adorabrawler | ara's catch all

[ no wonder rang is fond of you. ]

You can say that again. Stupid is an understatement.

[ ... ]

—Sure is. Well... getting back at her or whatever wasn't my intention, really. But I'll take this over a certain someone– [ Valerie. ] –capslocking at me in my inbox.

I know it wasn't. I never thought it was. It shouldn't be your reasoning anyway.

[ it's just something lambda doesn't mind as aside.

she tilts her head, curious. ]

Valerie? What did she say?

She was making a big deal about how we "screwed up", apparently. I'm still mad about it so I'm not going to bother with a reply.

That's rich of her when almost all she does is "screw up." Don't bother.

Figures... She was there when we agreed on erasing someone, too.

I can't stand that kind of hypocrisy. She made so much noise about not killing and never killing at all in the beginning.

Were you planning on Luo Wenzhou from the beginning?

... Not exactly. It's, erm—let's just say it's a good thing our first plan got derailed.

Explain.

It was Amelia, initially.

You really thought it was Justice, didn't you?

I didn't really know who to think it was, to be honest. But I think they had been pretty convinced...

I want you to know it's insulting that anyone thought Simon could take me head on.

Maybe. But it's not like some of the others believed I could take on Wenzhou, either.

That worked for your benefit, as the culprit.

I... don't know about that.

How so? I'd say enough would steer away from voting you from your age, but if people didn't think you could, they'd look at you less during trial.

Well, they mostly came to the conclusion that I must've held him down somehow or put him in a position where he couldn't fight back in the first place.

You made him believe something, didn't you?

Well... yeah. Monika wanted him to trust us, that's all, so he was willing to sit and listen to what she had to say. But when it came down to it, he still fought back.

That wasn't as planned, I take it.

I was prepared for it. Trusting someone doesn't mean you wouldn't protect your own life against them.

So what exactly happened to make it all go—

[ she makes a gesture to sort of imitate - kaboom ]

Uhhhh.... I may have panicked a little.

Go on.

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