PC WITH AOI

[commedia]

Comments

[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. ]

[commedia]

[A slight scoff.]

If that really is the case? Then that's a complicated matter that doesn't have an answer, little doll.

[gamerbrain]

... Feelings are really hard...

[commedia]

[Douman is silent for a moment, drawing their knees up to themselves.]

...They are, yes.