...Good.

[She's... plainly feeling bad about it so... that's kind of enough, isn't it? He wouldn't know if she's slipped in saying his name or not, but he did trust her with it, and this is just an extended line of that trust, building that bridge a little further over that chasm.]

They're not in stasis like the other students, but lying low... [Where-ever students go when they go 'home' for the day, as per Shin's insistent instruction.] So it's best if this doesn't get out, ahaha. For two months, at least. Seems people can come back after at least that much, if Inaba's any clue.

[...]

I... one didn't...

[Trust him. And... ended up dying. Shin's been wrestling with people trusting him and being put in danger because of it, it fits in line with how the world works for him, but this hurts in a way he's only felt once before, when everyone placed their trust in someone else he was sure would betray them all in the end, instead of him, who was trying to defeat them. It's... different as well from that again. All he has is the sense that he failed, should have tried better.]

Well, that person I was pretending to be... That must have been what they saw. Prudent, of them...

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