[She hums quietly with understanding. That makes sense! After all, Akechi thought he was the only person with a Persona for a while. If everyone had one, it'd be pretty obvious!]
I wish I could meet her. She sounds kind of like... Chabashira-san!
[Kaede has to close her eyes to think back, lips curving into a sad smile.]
She's the Super High School Level Aikido Master... she's really cool! Oh, but she only likes girls. She didn't have any patience for boys at all. I'm pretty sure she even called Saihara-kun a "degenerate male." But... even though she was scared during the killing game, she really wanted to protect all of us. Or, well, the girls anyway.
[She opens her eyes and huffs a laugh through her nose, shaking her head.]
You know, it's kind of weird, but... I'd never met so many unique people before I was involved in... in all of that. I only knew everyone for a few days, but I don't think I'll ever forget them.
[Nonsense! She's kind and sympathetic (to girls), easily annoyed (by boys), and brave and independent all on her own!
She hums softly, closing her eyes again.]
There were fifteen other students, all Super High School Levels. It's weird, 'cause meeting another Super High School Level is pretty rare! There's not that many of us in the whole country, after all. I felt pretty normal around all of them, to tell you the truth.
But... Saihara-kun is definitely the person I spent most of my time with. I thought you were him at first. [She smiles with a sad fondness, looking down at her hands.] I think the two of you would have been friends.
Mmhm. [She tugs on her bangs as if to emphasize the resemblance.] You both have the same hairstyle... oh, but Saihara-kun always wears a hat. [She mimes putting a baseball cap on, because apparently, describing people goes along with charades?] He's... really kind and soft-spoken, but full of determination!
Like I said before, I only knew everyone for a few days but... I miss him and everyone else so much. Like Amami-kun, the boy I... the boy I murdered. He did my nails for me.
[She extends her hands. Her nails are short and neatly-clipped, but there's no polish on them right now.]
Long nails would get in the way of playing piano, so I never really thought about painting them... but Amami-kun and another girl, Shirogane-san, they both worked together to make them super pretty. I... haven't had the heart to ask anyone to do them for me again after that.
[ If she enjoyed having her nails painted, she shouldn't feel the need to bar herself from it. Especially since they introduced her to it. They both wanted her to enjoy it enough to get it done for herself, right? Probably. He doesn't know them, but that's the sort of thing friends or nice people would do. ]
You know... it's kind of funny you say that doing something fun would be like... doing it in their memory. When I first got here, Sakamoto-kun and I carved our friends' names in one of the trees in the Quad. I've been trying to compose songs for everyone who's... who's not with us, too.
...I guess what I'm saying is, is there anything I could help you do?
[ Something to do to remember his friends by.... He's been trying to make decisions based on how he thinks SEES would react to things. He can't say he's always hit the mark... Something concrete would be nice though. But what? ]
[She rests her chin in her hand, humming lightly as she thinks it over. There's the tree, of course; it's still sad to look at, but maybe if his friends' names are there too, it's like... it's less lonely? Or more morbid, the more names are left there. She isn't sure.
Music? He's not a composer, though, and besides, his violin is still being worked on in New Aspen. Even she knows music is more her obsession than his.]
Maybe... you could write something? Like how you wrote the poem for me. Or... [she holds a finger up as inspiration strikes.] What's something you guys would do together? We could do that!
I think spending a day doing what Arisato-kun wants to do would be really fun.
[Even if it's just sleeping all day with a break for lunch.]
[ Write something? Hm... He struggled to write anything the first time with Sayori at the sleepover, but the poem for Kaede was easier. Maybe it's easier to write a poem when he has a specific thing to say and an audience in mind. What would he say to everyone in SEES, if he could send a message back to them now? To all the other friends he made since April?
Ah, Kaede's still talking. He'll think about that later. ]
I don't do much...
[ Goro dragged him back to classes when he felt like wasting away was a better use of his time..... And SEES didn't do many group activities. ]
[And one of the things he listed -- staying out of people's ways -- isn't a hobby at all!!]
Did you not get to go out with your friends after school very much...? I didn't, either. At least, I don't think so... if I didn't have a competition or a recital, I was usually going straight home to practice.
[ Well... They would do things individually sometimes. ]
Mitsuru-san would take me to try new things with her. Akihiko-san trained and liked fighting. Yukari-san would take me shopping... Fuuka-san was learning to cook and had me test her food. Junpei-san liked baseball, and the arcade, and slacking off... Aigis-san had a lot of questions about people... I didn't spend much time alone with Ken-san or Shinjiro-san. But Koro-chan liked taking walks at night.
[Oh wow, that's a whole list of people. Kaede's doing her best to commit those names to memory. It sounds like they all invited him to do the things they liked, huh...? Not too much has changed for him, then. He must have been close with all of them to be on a first-name basis, though.
...Hang on.]
Koro-chan? [The familiar choice of suffix stands out compared to the others, and she looks stricken at the thought. Losing Shuichi and her other friends had been bad enough, but losing someone she was dating...?] Was she your girlfriend...?
[There are so many assumptions being made here, and all of them are wrong.]
[She flushes a bright pink and covers her mouth with both of her hands. She just asked if he was dating a dog!!]
S-Sorry... I just assumed...
[Looked like Cocoa, though, huh...? That does make his decision a little easier to understand, too. After all, even before she knew Minato personally, she'd have been willing to do anything for him in a kind of messed-up attempt to atone for what she'd done to Shuichi.]
Ummm... what kind of group is SEES? [she asks instead of following up on whether or not he actually did have a girlfriend. He did say "Sees" right? She thought it was "scene" before.] That you had a dog in it...
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[She hums quietly with understanding. That makes sense! After all, Akechi thought he was the only person with a Persona for a while. If everyone had one, it'd be pretty obvious!]
Oh! Was your classmate Aragaki-kun?
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Yukari Takeba.
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[Oh. Someone who's not here with them. Her expression softens as she tilts her head.]
What's she like? Takeba-san. I'll tell you about one of my friends in exchange, if you want.
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[Kaede has to close her eyes to think back, lips curving into a sad smile.]
She's the Super High School Level Aikido Master... she's really cool! Oh, but she only likes girls. She didn't have any patience for boys at all. I'm pretty sure she even called Saihara-kun a "degenerate male." But... even though she was scared during the killing game, she really wanted to protect all of us. Or, well, the girls anyway.
[She opens her eyes and huffs a laugh through her nose, shaking her head.]
You know, it's kind of weird, but... I'd never met so many unique people before I was involved in... in all of that. I only knew everyone for a few days, but I don't think I'll ever forget them.
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Who else did you meet?
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She hums softly, closing her eyes again.]
There were fifteen other students, all Super High School Levels. It's weird, 'cause meeting another Super High School Level is pretty rare! There's not that many of us in the whole country, after all. I felt pretty normal around all of them, to tell you the truth.
But... Saihara-kun is definitely the person I spent most of my time with. I thought you were him at first. [She smiles with a sad fondness, looking down at her hands.] I think the two of you would have been friends.
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I remember that. [ The first thing she ever said to him was that other boy's name. ] We look similar.
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Mmhm. [She tugs on her bangs as if to emphasize the resemblance.] You both have the same hairstyle... oh, but Saihara-kun always wears a hat. [She mimes putting a baseball cap on, because apparently, describing people goes along with charades?] He's... really kind and soft-spoken, but full of determination!
Like I said before, I only knew everyone for a few days but... I miss him and everyone else so much. Like Amami-kun, the boy I... the boy I murdered. He did my nails for me.
[She extends her hands. Her nails are short and neatly-clipped, but there's no polish on them right now.]
Long nails would get in the way of playing piano, so I never really thought about painting them... but Amami-kun and another girl, Shirogane-san, they both worked together to make them super pretty. I... haven't had the heart to ask anyone to do them for me again after that.
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[ If she enjoyed having her nails painted, she shouldn't feel the need to bar herself from it. Especially since they introduced her to it. They both wanted her to enjoy it enough to get it done for herself, right? Probably. He doesn't know them, but that's the sort of thing friends or nice people would do. ]
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[She curls her fingers into her palms and examines her fingernails, indecision curving her lips into a frown.]
Maybe you're right.
[She glances back up again with a small smile.]
Would you come with me, Arisato-kun? I know I won't be sad if you're at my side, after all!
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.... No glitter.
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I wasn't going to make you get yours done, too! Just sitting with me would be enough.
...Oh, but if you want to get yours done too, I think that would be a lot of fun!
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You know... it's kind of funny you say that doing something fun would be like... doing it in their memory. When I first got here, Sakamoto-kun and I carved our friends' names in one of the trees in the Quad. I've been trying to compose songs for everyone who's... who's not with us, too.
...I guess what I'm saying is, is there anything I could help you do?
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... Not sure. Haven't thought about it.
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[She rests her chin in her hand, humming lightly as she thinks it over. There's the tree, of course; it's still sad to look at, but maybe if his friends' names are there too, it's like... it's less lonely? Or more morbid, the more names are left there. She isn't sure.
Music? He's not a composer, though, and besides, his violin is still being worked on in New Aspen. Even she knows music is more her obsession than his.]
Maybe... you could write something? Like how you wrote the poem for me. Or... [she holds a finger up as inspiration strikes.] What's something you guys would do together? We could do that!
I think spending a day doing what Arisato-kun wants to do would be really fun.
[Even if it's just sleeping all day with a break for lunch.]
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Ah, Kaede's still talking. He'll think about that later. ]
I don't do much...
[ Goro dragged him back to classes when he felt like wasting away was a better use of his time..... And SEES didn't do many group activities. ]
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Right... you don't have a lot of hobbies, huh?
[And one of the things he listed -- staying out of people's ways -- isn't a hobby at all!!]
Did you not get to go out with your friends after school very much...? I didn't, either. At least, I don't think so... if I didn't have a competition or a recital, I was usually going straight home to practice.
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Mitsuru-san would take me to try new things with her. Akihiko-san trained and liked fighting. Yukari-san would take me shopping... Fuuka-san was learning to cook and had me test her food. Junpei-san liked baseball, and the arcade, and slacking off... Aigis-san had a lot of questions about people... I didn't spend much time alone with Ken-san or Shinjiro-san. But Koro-chan liked taking walks at night.
... My other friends weren't in SEES.
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[Oh wow, that's a whole list of people. Kaede's doing her best to commit those names to memory. It sounds like they all invited him to do the things they liked, huh...? Not too much has changed for him, then. He must have been close with all of them to be on a first-name basis, though.
...Hang on.]
Koro-chan? [The familiar choice of suffix stands out compared to the others, and she looks stricken at the thought. Losing Shuichi and her other friends had been bad enough, but losing someone she was dating...?] Was she your girlfriend...?
[There are so many assumptions being made here, and all of them are wrong.]
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Koromaru was a dog... He looked a lot like Cocoa-chan.
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[She flushes a bright pink and covers her mouth with both of her hands. She just asked if he was dating a dog!!]
S-Sorry... I just assumed...
[Looked like Cocoa, though, huh...? That does make his decision a little easier to understand, too. After all, even before she knew Minato personally, she'd have been willing to do anything for him in a kind of messed-up attempt to atone for what she'd done to Shuichi.]
Ummm... what kind of group is SEES? [she asks instead of following up on whether or not he actually did have a girlfriend. He did say "Sees" right? She thought it was "scene" before.] That you had a dog in it...
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After school club.
[ IT TECHNICALLY WAS... He kind of wants to see her reaction to that. ]
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[She squints at him uncertainly.]
What kind of after-school club gives out Persona-summoning guns...?
[And has a dog!]
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