#practical exams

I don’t think she wants to talk right now. But thanks for caring.

I have acted badly toward other people before. Nobody tricked me or made me do it, I just...

My parents were never around...they never taught me how to act around other people. I had to figure out how I was supposed to talk to others pretty much on my own. I didn’t even understand I have autism until I was in my last year of elementary school.

So I said and did a lot of really hurtful things...I wasn’t trying to be a bully, I didn’t think I was better than anyone...but it still happened and I still hurt peoples’ feelings. The fact that I only ever talked about games didn’t help much either.

And even when I was in a support group for other kids like me, I said some things that really upset t few of them, like this other girl with depression and one with anorexia. I didn’t know why what I was doing upset them until the teacher there explained it to me.

I just gave up on talking to people at some point...and that made it seem like I was just some stuck-up rich girl.

But it’s their job to give it a try, right? It’s not like it’ll kill them.

Never underestimate my abilities.

Yeah, I’ll just call them up, say I’m from the future, and need their help. That should work just fine.

It was probably easy to overlook them. Most of the action during the Tragedy was focused on us and Future Foundation, but we were just the big players out there.

There were plenty of others out there, off in different parts of the world, who had their own missions or battles they were fighting. And not only did enoshima have followers besides us, there were also independents out there, still wreaking havoc.

And unfortunately, there weren’t just three killing games. Thanks to that worldwide broadcast, it gave a lot of them inspiration. There were...way too many.

The Kisaragi Foundation was one of the other groups out there trying to fix things. Turns out somebody’d stolen the designs for the Neo World Program and made one of their own, which they’d gone to investigate.