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He seems to think it's a foregone conclusion. I don't agree, though. He's not the type to cause that kind of harm.

Do you think it's safe here? I mean generally. The environment, overall.

yeah i noticed that he kind of
caved in really fast.
but there are multiple ways to hurt a person.

in general? probably not.
there are issues at hand that could spell out people getting hurt
us being completely alien here being one of the many reasons

Mmhmm. I think you inadvertently touched on a nerve that was already there.

It meant I learned something more about him. I'm not sure if gratitude is the right word, but you were the catalyst for that, regardless of motive.

Regardless.

I've been asking myself lately whether this place is better or worse than my previous circumstances.

what that he has a complex about himself?
anyway i wont make excuses. i dont actually want to hurt the kid. that's all i'll say

it's hard to make those kinds of comparisons
it's still up in the air for me too honestly.
there are some things obviously improved but there's some missing components that are irreplaceable

He's quick to accept blame, deserved or not. Most people would grasp at reasons to absolve themselves of culpability, but he's the opposite; he rushes to justify why he should bear responsibility for it.

Would you bring someone here, if you could?

yeah i noticed.
self-destruction isn't new to me

i thought about that
it's hard to say.
would i be too selfish by dragging someone here? probably
but i also want to think about what would make them happiest.
it's hard to decide that, based on the circumstances we've lived.

Really? You told me to leave you for dead if you slowed me down in the crater. I would never have guessed that came from a habit of self-destructive tendencies.

[KIRIGIRI...]

I feel like...however unsafe this place may be, it might still be better than what my classmates would be facing otherwise. So I'm undecided.

wow
get a load of this sassmaster here

yeah
based on what you told me they might feel safer
i couldnt blame you for wanting them somewhere else.

It's only my unbiased assessment. 🤪

With so little information, it's difficult to evaluate. But if there were an arrangement that could be made to facilitate it, I think that I would probably do it.

i dont think you could be blamed for that
not after what you and your friends went through

It's a gamble, though. We still don't know for certain whether this is just another form of confinement or not.

that's fair
there's a lot we still dont know

i get the feeling that our arrangement is unprecedented by most if not all people involved
but either way i dont really have proof of that

It's difficult. My inclination is to be sensible, but...

One of my classmates, I know, wouldn't hesitate. If he were in my position, he would already be doing everything he could to bring the rest of us here, safety or not.

His opinion is important to me, so it's hard not to be influenced by it.

nah i get it.
i wish i could say i'd know for sure what my capo would do
i think he'd be trying to get back to the rest of us at first, at least.

...Your "capo"?

the guy i worked for. the guy i actually chose to work for and wanted to work for.
different than the mafia boss that tried to kill me

I knew you were looking for the boss of the mafia. I didn't realize that you were a member of the organization, yourself.

He recruited you after the accident, I assume.

yeah i meant to get to that.
seemed like hell of a thing to get into when we first met
but i dont really care about it right now.

yeah.
when i was at my lowest he found me.
and he's the one that motivated us to investigate the boss of the mafia.
without him here is kind of a pain in the ass honestly

It doesn't bother me. My family wasn't...spotless.

He sounds nice. Warm.
Did he have ambitions to be the boss?

fair enough.
wouldnt blame you though

it wasnt that.
the boss was obsessed with keeping his identity a secret. so far that he tried to kill his own teenage daughter
bucciarati had already been dealing with enough from the famiglia up to that point but that was the last straw for him. so he chose to betray the boss and save her even if it meant certain death.
always so damned noble that guy

Why even bother having a daughter that you don't want. Something like that always makes me wonder.

[Oops, her issues are showing. Better regroup, and fast.]

He wanted her dead because she knew who he was?

...No, that can't be right. You were on the beach trying to track him down directly, and if you could've gotten the same information through saving her, you wouldn't have bothered. You would've focused all your attention on helping her, and efficiently accomplished two goals at once.

So it must be something else. Not that she knew him, but that she was a link to him. To truly stay hidden, he needed to erase all evidence that he ever existed, and she was a threat to that.

[whats up you got DADDY ISSUES? Abbacchio does notice, but he won't bring it up right now.]

see
you're so fucking sharp.

[He can't show it well through text, but he is proud.]

he didn't know she existed until her mom died and was trying to track him down.
her mom mentioned a location where he had been when they knew each other
and that was while i was rewinding time to see his face.

Did you ever learn her name? The girl.

The boss must not have been very good at his job, if he was that obsessive about keeping his identity a secret. That sort of profession should have had him orchestrating a cult of personality, not hiding his identity. That suggests he was weak and afraid of being overthrown at any moment.

yeah.
we were first assigned as her bodyguards to deliver her to the boss. we didnt know his real intentions we just assumed he was going to put her somewhere safe
it never occurred to any of us how far he'd go

you wouldnt be wrong
maybe weak of character but his abilities were powerful
thats the part that made him dangerous

He was like you, then. He had something like Moody Blues?

I'm going to guess that your capo did, too. That seems to be a trend.

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