[She doesn't have a quick reply to that. She just buries her face back in her arms again.
She'd accept her punishment again if it meant that all her friends could survive, too. She'd had the chance to escape after starting the killing game, stopping the timer that was marching all of them toward their deaths, but... the people here are different from her friends. No one here knows who Rantaro was; it's easy for them to forgive her for the death of someone they didn't even know. She can't expect her friends from home to forgive her, to let her walk away from starting something like that.
That is what she's done though, isn't it?
It's hard to reconcile those two feelings, understanding why he did it, and why he might be willing to do it again, with how much it hurt to have him gone. Even if it wasn't for very long, it had still hurt.]
Please don't. [It's a quiet plea, spoken into her arms instead of to his face.] Let me... let me do it for you, Arisato-kun. If... if we hadn't been able to bring you back, I just... I was so scared I'd never see you again. If it has to be someone, let it be me. Please.
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[She doesn't have a quick reply to that. She just buries her face back in her arms again.
She'd accept her punishment again if it meant that all her friends could survive, too. She'd had the chance to escape after starting the killing game, stopping the timer that was marching all of them toward their deaths, but... the people here are different from her friends. No one here knows who Rantaro was; it's easy for them to forgive her for the death of someone they didn't even know. She can't expect her friends from home to forgive her, to let her walk away from starting something like that.
That is what she's done though, isn't it?
It's hard to reconcile those two feelings, understanding why he did it, and why he might be willing to do it again, with how much it hurt to have him gone. Even if it wasn't for very long, it had still hurt.]
Please don't. [It's a quiet plea, spoken into her arms instead of to his face.] Let me... let me do it for you, Arisato-kun. If... if we hadn't been able to bring you back, I just... I was so scared I'd never see you again. If it has to be someone, let it be me. Please.