#milgram interrogation

• Es physically reprimands Amane during the end of the T1 interrogation (and subsequent start of her song)

• Amane despite her age and maturity, believes herself to be as mature as an adult (Most likely due to her trauma, trauma tends to embolden someone in things they shouldn't be), going as far as to be aggrevated when people look down on her as if she were a child

• My longstanding beliefs of the effects of T1 on her seem to ring true, she goes from being an optimistic girl who talks of her teachings, she mentions her parents scolding her for at minimum an hour for her mistakes and she actually takes the role of the primary speaker in the interrogation. Whilst in her T2 interrogation she's broken, less talkative and more prone to outbursts (She attempts twice to attack Es with scissors, threatens Kazui, and despite using "We" for the beginning of it, she switches to "I" when angered). She also takes heavy note of the fact Es refers to himself as "We" near the end, now unsurprisingly I am not exactly going to read/listen to over an hours worth of transcripts, but if any of the other inmates figure out that Es isn't just Es, let me know. But as I believed and interpreted through the songs, by marking her innocent in the second song we emboldened her zealous nature.

The interrogations have told me that the first trial is something the inmate doesn't expect to happen, Amane is so determined to be innocent or her murder, yet her subconcsious begs for forgiveness of her sin. Deep down in Amane's heart is a little girl that was tortured into what we see in T1, and the guilty verdict not only destroys her outward persona (A Big Girl who just does what god wants) but her subconcsious (A little girl who just wanted to help people and animals in the name of her god).

T2 and what it does to her is a result or breaking that little girl in half, if T1 is her childish subconcsious, T2 is her religious subconcsious, she no longer wishes to be forgiven (neither by us or her cult), she doesn't believe in the systems she's apart or (again, MILGRAM and the cult) and because of that, Purge March is Amane's declaration that she is the only force who can provide the will of her god, neither MILGRAM nor her cult are correct, only her and her faith and because the verdict was innocent, we reinforce the idea in her head that she IS the hand of god and thus should be the one who decides who sins and who doesn't.

Es: sorry for the wait, Yuno.

Yuno: hi. It’s been a while, guard san.

Es: it seems you haven’t changed much, from what I can see.

Yuno: hm? Of course I haven’t changed? Ah, right, Haruka changed quite a lot. Guys changes so much around girls, huh?

Es: it’s a relief for now (that Yuno doesn’t seem to have changed). Then let’s begin the interrogation.

Yuno: hm-

Es: Yuno?

Yuno: It's too bothersome, so I’ll pass.

Es: hah?

Yuno: hurry up and just extract the song or whatever. Then, imagine what’s there and what’s not, and choose as you like, will you?

Es: hm. Quite the unwilling attitude.

Yuno: yeah, I guess. My interest just drained away, y’know?

Es: whether you have interest in it or not, I’m just going to do my job

Yuno: job, huh. So, how is it? This chaos that you created with this job of yours? Is it fun?

Es: what are you trying to say?

Yuno: are you satisfied, guard san? Forgive or not, the prison is in this state right now.

Es: you’re talking about the conflicts between the prisoners.

Yuno: right. The Kotoko san that guard san forgave went on a rampage and people were getting injured left and right!

Es: Mahiru and Fuuta. That was something that I hadn’t expected either.

Yuno: really? If you asked me, I’d never want to be friends with Kotoko san. She’s the type that has a set conclusion already, and the conversation would just stay in one spot. Well, it’s up to you who you want to be friends with, I guess. But Mahiru san seems to really be in a bad situation. Seems like she’s physically and mentally at her limit? And Mikoto san was attacked too, but seems like it ended in a draw. Seems like that guy was actually pretty strong. How unexpected. Oh, and Haruka and Muu chan are kind of becoming bothersome too, ah, and Amane chan and Shidou san too.

Es: Amane and Shidou?

Yuno: Well, they’re kind of like the opposite of Haruka and Muu chan. It’s quite the situation, so go ahead and go see for yourself.

Es: So that’s a result of the first trial too.

Yuno: well, to get to the point,

*pauses*

Yuno: it’s fucking bothersome. I said it before, didn’t I? People judging people based on a system other than the law has no end to it. That’s why I’m not interested in Milgram.

Es: yes, I remember. You told me that you wouldn’t worry about my judgement, and continue being yourself.

Yuno: ooh, yeah yeah. I’m happy you remembered. But you see, I didn't particularly dislike it. Milgram. Everyone here is kind of weird, but it was warmer than my daily life.

Es: it seemed like you were enjoying it.

Yuno: yeah. It was nice. They may be murderers, but they’re fun people. It’s kind of relaxing, with people who are all lacking something.

Es: you’re saying that it’s my fault that changed.

Yuno: exactly! The bothersomeness of this situation overruled the enjoyability of it. So now I’ve become cold (attitude). The end. So? Are you satisfied? With this situation.

Es: you are all murderers. And to clarify your sins, my job is necessary. Milgram will make your true selves and the truth clear-

Yuno: that. Will you not last if you don’t desperately tell that to yourself?

Es: uh,

Yuno: you want to reveal the truth, huh. Ha, ha.

Es: yes. Of course. As the prison guard of Milgram, and to judge your sins properly-

Yuno: a loooot of gold digging, and as a result, abortion. I think that’s my ‘murder’. Feast on the truth! So? Are you satisfied? Can we end now?

Es: Yuno, you,

Yuno: It doesn't seem like you’re too surprised. So you figured it out from the extracted song.

Es: well, yes. I did think that was a high possibility. I thought it was within Milgram’s interpretation of ‘murder’.

Yuno: I thought so. I did think it was something like that. I could feel it.

Es: you felt it, you say?

Yuno: I can hear it, when I’m in Milgram. I think the other’s are the same way too. Voices that are searching, observing, peering into, and talking about my sins.

Es: something like that,

Yuno: Those were things that you were thinking about, right? I dunno.

Es: I don’t know. I hadn’t heard anything about Milgram having an effect like that. It is true that I chose to forgive you after coming to those conclusions. Although it was a tentative decision.

Yuno: haa, then I’m going to announce the second reason why I’ve gone cold! Yay!

Es: hm,

Yuno: what a party pooper.

Es: I’m starting to have a difficult time trying to understand you.

Yuno: it’s kinda annoying to have you be so serious about it.

Es: I see. Continue.

Yuno: the second reason why I’ve become cold is, to put it simply, that I was forgiven.

Es: what?

Yuno: well to be more precise, it wasn’t exactly the fact that I was forgiven, but

Es: I don’t understand. Say it clearly.

Yuno: hmm, then shall I tell you what the voices I heard in my head were saying?

Yuno: “Because she’s pitiful. She must’ve had a reason. She might’ve become like this because she had a painful experience in the past. She must have had family problems, she must not know what love is yet, that’s why I forgive her.”

Es: it’s true that I did analyze it that way.

Yuno: ugh, seriously, yeah yeah. Well, if I had to say, and this will be my personal opinion, but to me, that assumption seems like a lecture. It’s disgusting.

Es: uh,

Yuno: it’s rubbish, assuming that I’m pitiful, deciding my past, building up your own ideal version of me, a version of me that you can agree to, haa. Those types of people really exist, you know. But those people are the ones that also do nothing for me.

Es: yuno,

Yuno: I’m not pitiful. My family gets along well, and it’s not like I have money problems either. I simply thought it was necessary for me, and made those decisions out of my own will.

Es: hm, then, what were you, uh, looking for when you, were doing those kinds of-

Yuno: why are you tripping over your words? How pure!

Es: shut up.

Yuno: hehe.

Es: I’m not going to question whether your actions other than your murder is right or wrong, however I think it’s not a mistake to say it’s a problematic action ethically.

Yuno: hmm, I’m not really interested in things like ethics or morality, stuff like that won’t make my stomach full.

Es: that sounds like quite a dangerous thought.

Yuno: Seriously, I agree with you. You know, I think there are a lot of people who are suffering from the idea that you have to “obey/protect ethics and morality”. ‘They should live more freely-’ That’s what I think.

Es: I think that depends on the extremeness of it?

Yuno: yes yes, of course I think crimes aren’t good, but there are ‘immoral’ acts that don’t make anyone unhappy, right? Gold digging is like that too, it’s ethically thought of to be bad, so I was hiding it, but did it make anyone unhappy? Isn’t it a win-win relationship/situation?

Es: I said this earlier too, but I’m not going to judge the morality behind your actions other than your murder. However, the fact that those actions of yours lead to your murder is true.

Yuno: Yes, that’s true. I’m not saying that abortion doesn’t count as murder, y’know? I’m a murderer.

Es: I can’t really understand you. It seems like you have a preference but it also seems like you don’t, it seems like you have an opinion, however they’re not persistent.

Yuno: It's not like I want to win a debate or something. I’m just speaking what’s on my mind.

Es: you don’t regret it at all?

Yuno: the more I realized that my action was “stealing a life’, the more it didn’t feel like a life. It felt weird, like something that wasn’t supposed to be there.

Es: I don’t think I can understand that feeling. I’ve never experienced it before.

Yuno: That's true. *stretches* I don’t care if you scorn me, and I wouldn’t have cared even if you said you wouldn’t forgive me, y’know? It’s not like I think I’m not innocent. Agreed, agreed. But you just imagined your own version of me, and pitied me? Even though I rationally decided to do those things out of my own will?

Es: sorry, but that’s just how Milgram is.

Yuno: then I don’t like Milgram.

Es: that’s fine.

Yuno: Do you have to have a sad reason to forgive someone? So if someone has a sad reason, you would forgive them?

Es: it’s a fact that those things are factors in judgement.

Yuno: even though they did the same thing? (people that have a reason for doing things, and people who don’t)

Es: even if it was in the light of the law instead of Milgram, things like making punishments lighter because of the reasons for what happened exist. The motive behind the murder is a key factor.

Yun: hmm, well that’s true. Well, if we were going by law, I wouldn’t end up being charged with murder either way.

Es: this is Milgram.

Yuno: yeah yeah, you really love Milgram huh, guard san?

Es: not really.

Yuno: thought so. You look pained, guard san.

Es: me?

Yuno: yeah. Who else is there?

Es: That's not true.

*chime*

Yuno: okaaay it’s over it's over! Hurry up and extract the song or whatever!

Es: seriously, you.

Yuno: you were able to get the answer to my crime, right? Now you can do what, why don’t you go think about my reason or motive or my feelings or whatever?

Es: you made so much fun of my job. (the way he words it is pretty aggressive)

Yuno: ah, are you mad?

Es: a little.

Yuno: hm, well, things like forgiving or not forgiving- they’re kind of foolish. I won’t become warm with something like that. If you don’t hold me tight, it’s impossible, impossible.

Es: keep talking (sarcastic). I won’t stop no matter what you say about Milgram.

Yuno: mhm mhm.

Es: I’ve told you. I’ll decide whatever I want about you selfishly. (this could mean either that Es won’t take ‘her’ into consideration when he decides, just her crime itself, or that they’ll just make whatever decision they want based on their own ‘selfish’ reason)

Yuno: you did say that.

Es: say all the complaints you want. You troublemaker.

Yuno: hehe. Oh, also, there’s one thing that I was wondering about.

Es: what is it.

Yuno: Am I, really alive?

Es: what do you, mean by,

Yuno: hmm, it’s fine if you don’t know.

Es: Yuno,

Yuno: C’mon, isn’t it already time?

Es: ah, yes.. Prisoner number 02, Yuno, sing your sins.

All translations by yours truly <3