From a certain point of view... you do have a point there... [It has been from the beginning, just--] Maybe if the next mission retroactively returns the exiles to amicability.
[A moment of pause, and then the video feed will come on. Tsubomi looks anxious, hands wound together in her lap, knees together.]
Um--I wanted to say I'm sorry, for whatever I did to kidnap you. I don't remember it very well, but I'm really, really sorry! [She lowers her body in a sitting down bow.]
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[ Oh, whoah. That definitely catches her off guard, and it takes Mami a moment to answer. ]
You put a lot of work into that! Thank you, Kanaya. It sounds like your world would be very unusual to me. You seem to have acclimated here well, though.
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[ That's an odd question, and a troubling one, too. She doesn't know. People are friendly here; people know her name. But she has a war to fight in both places, doesn't she? Mami isn't sure that it's fair to choose one over the other, not right now. ]
If offered a choice, I will go to whichever place needs me the most.
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[She whimpers, looking and feeling humiliated. She feels awful about the whole thing.] But I really don't! I would never--that place was awful, I wouldn't--I hit you! I wouldn't do that. [Oh, and now she's lost it, speaking so quickly she's stumbling over her words, her face red with embarrassment--] I'm so sorry, really!!
No, don't... feel like that... [Those flushing cheeks--oh, child. Kanaya practically has to fight the urge to reach through the screen and pat her consolingly.]
One of my own friends - he kidnapped a girl, said he didn't remember, and I got very offended thinking he meant the identity of the victim was of no consequence to him. You're demonstrating the opposite to be the truth.
[It takes her a moment, but she manages to calm down from her stamering, and when she does, Tsubomi frowns.] It might be--different, for some people... For me, it's quite fuzzy. There are blank spots in the days leading up to it, and however I convinced Flora to help me carry Sayaka... [She widens her hands, trying to convey what's there in her memory.] I really am very sorry.
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