catch-all: ylfa.

[rewriter]

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[rewriter]

[... CLOSES HER HECKING EYES.]

So she did curse you with the umbrella.

[honkinbigteeth]

Yeah. But it wore off before trial.

[ugh.]

Sorry, Monika. I know how much it hurt you to see that, and to not know who did it.

I really didn’t hate her or want her to suffer or anything. Actually, I liked her a lot. She was just one of the people who were open about being willing to play by that set of rules, and I felt like…if people wanted to try to win by doing swimming competitions and wanted to hope no one would murder, it felt a little wrong to do a murder to them.

In retrospect, I think I feel differently about it now.

[rewriter]

What's done is done. It's too late to change anything about it.

But in retrospect, knowing what we do now... it probably would have been better to have more people like her around than people who refuse to play by the rules, right?

[honkinbigteeth]

Yeah.

[no kidding...!]

And I kinda...I think saying its too cruel to accuse someone like Nahida is just wrong. That's not how this works. It was cruel to hurt Valerie, too, but we all have to make bad decisions.

[rewriter]

To be honest, there aren't any good choices afforded to us. All any of us can do is make the choices we can live with.

I think anyone who decides to play by the rules of the game is conscious of the consequences, anyway.

[honkinbigteeth]

I think so, too.

And I liked Valerie. Her life wasn't worth less than someone else's.

[rewriter]

... Yeah. I know. But she's gone now. All we can do is hope that the pain she went through amounts to something at the end of this competition.

[honkinbigteeth]

Yeah. I know Nahida understood that. That she had to do something to help everyone. Nahida…has been helping me and Haru for a long time, though she didn’t tell us she was going to do this.

[rewriter]

She didn't want to burden you with it, I'm sure. It sounded like even her teammates were a little blindsided by it.

[honkinbigteeth]

...Yeah. I wish she'd trusted us more.

[but britt gonna britt.]

[rewriter]

... I think, for her, it's less about trust and more about wanting to protect you.

[honkinbigteeth]

You're probably right.

...Are you okay, Monika?

[rewriter]

[...]

I'll be okay. I just have to keep my eyes on the prize, right?