#znts

If she had wanted to run away with us, she would have. I’m sure she’s just here to play games. She wants to pick up where we left off.

You’re so considerate.

Let the games begin, Nine.

Then why did you go all the way to Aomori? No matter how cleverly you erase records and tracks, you can’t erase a person’s memory. Besides... I wanted to feel it. The view they saw. The sounds they heard. The air they breathed. To feel all those things.

Thereafter, Oedipus weds the King’s wife, who is in fact his own mother. When Oedipus learns the truth, that he has killed his own father and has married his own mother, he cannot bear the guilt. As an act of penance, he blinds himself by gouging out his own eyes.

You don’t have to lie. Neither do you.