PC WITH AOI

[commedia]

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W2 Sunday

[gamerbrain]

[ funny, aoi was also going to the planetarium. to... sulk? in as much as she is capable of sulking, anyway. she hesitates in the doorway when she sees someone is inside already, but

after a moment decides to approach. ]

How was it?

[ ... aoi did not attend execution! ]

[commedia]

[They look over at her, smiling lightly as she approaches - they're just sitting against one of the walls, looking up at the stars.]

...Oh, you weren't there, were you? Ah, well...Fukuda decided to take himself out, little doll.

[gamerbrain]

[ hrmm. ]

Is that better? Is that worse?

Aoi doesn't know...

[commedia]

Its really neither.

[It is what it is.]

Want to have a sit?

[gamerbrain]

Got it.

[ more like it was a command than an offer, aoi sits down beside him. ]

... It's neither... That makes sense...

[commedia]

Mmm. Such things are complicated, Aoi.

[They fall silent for a long moment.]

He told me you came to see him. Fukuda.

[gamerbrain]

[ she nods... ]

Because Aoi thought we were friends.

[commedia]

He said that, too.

[And a shake of their head.]

Could you really be friends with a serial killer, though?

[gamerbrain]

[ ......... ]

Not sure...

[commedia]

That's good.

[They reach over to pat her on the head.]

Sometimes, nice people like Fukuda can be ones who pose the most harm. Keep that in mind, Aoi.

[gamerbrain]

[ hmm. she remembers the memory share... although her question still sounds like genuine curiosity and not an accusation: ]

Like you?

[commedia]

...

[He blinks, before letting out a laugh.]

Not as I am now, no. In my past...yes. It's true. I harmed many people.

[gamerbrain]

How is it different?

[commedia]

[Matter-of-factly:]

I came here to understand love, after all.

[gamerbrain]

Then if he had understood love...?

[commedia]

[A long look.]

Did he?

[gamerbrain]

Aoi doesn't know the answer to that. Aoi doesn't know other people's feelings.

[commedia]

That's true. We can only guess.

[gamerbrain]

[ but she's still curious - her question wasn't answered. ]

But if he had understood love... Would he have been better?

[commedia]

...

Probably. Then he would've understood what he did to all those people.

[gamerbrain]

But he didn't understand?

[ they've already been over that, but she's just. struggling, here. ]

[commedia]

[An exasperated sort of noise.]

He killed people and thought he was doing them a favor. He still thinks that. Little doll...

[gamerbrain]

The people who voted for him killed him and thought they were doing everyone a favor, too...

[commedia]

Its different when you kill someone to protect others versus killing people for yourself and telling yourself that you're doing it for their own good.

[gamerbrain]

What if they both feel the same way?

[ telling yourself it's for someone else's good and it actually being for someone else's good would be hard to discern. ]