catch-all: jiuqing.

[pura]

how did we not have a catch all already

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[countermeasures]

I wi⁠—

["i don't mean physically."

jiuqing falls silent.]

...I didn't want to hurt him. But... if we hadn't done anything...

[he was able to move, too. and everyone was frozen.

they would have been sitting ducks.]

[pura]

[...]

Just remember that you did for him... It was a mercy. You saved him from living the rest of his life as a monster who would take everyone down with him.

[countermeasures]

...I keep thinking, Miss Nogiku.

The way he laughed at the beginning of the fight... was that meant to be a sign?

[pura]

... I don't know.

But despite his usual personality, I don't think he had openly laughed like that before... had he?

[countermeasures]

Not that I can remember...

[pura]

I wonder... If it was a sign, then maybe the refraction enhances our worst traits. And the worse the infection, the harder it gets to hold yourself back.

[countermeasures]

...it could be. We'd need more information to know for sure, but... I don't want to subject anyone to that just to find out.

[pura]

No, of course not. But the facts are, there's likely someone out there right now who is already going through it. Ishtar-san couldn't have killed both 9S-san and Chinatsu, could he?

[countermeasures]

...I don't think he could have, no.

[me looking at the timing of this, nodding to myself, and leaving this tag the way it is.]

[pura]

[wtf what does that MEAN britt pc me]

It only keeps getting worse, huh...?

[countermeasures]

It does. I'm sick and tired of it.