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Why did Kizami pause before he said a simple person? What did he need to stop speaking for? Did she imagine that like the sigh from earlier? Maybe Madotsuki was just overreacting… plenty of people forget what to say for a second.

”It’s not important. I have met a few other duplicates of myself that have told me their last names. And I was just wondering if the one you met is a Madotsuki I know.”

Not human, though.

"...A simple person."

That'd do.

Where did you come from that’s got you so freaked?

Madotsuki shifted uncomfortably, she should have just made something up. At least he technically didn’t say they were going to go to the infirmary. Maybe they wouldn’t after all.

"I never hear her last name, not that I can remember, anyway." So there were different Madotsukis, and all of them had different names as well? This was useful information.

OH. Yes! I forgot!

"More than okay, definitively.

Infirmary? She has only been there once and that was when Morishige tortured her. She did not want to go in there again. Madotsuki didn’t want Kizami to get angry at her though…

"N-no. That’s fine. I’m not that t-tired, I can deal with not being fully rested for a while. Unless you also want to take a break? Then s-sure, you can dust off the beds."

She sounded definitively hesitant to go into the infirmary, for reasons he could not really place at the moment. Something seemed amiss... but he would find out more about this later. For now....

Osage’s smile disappeared and she furrowed her eyebrows. People died in here? How did that happen? This place seemed fairly harmless. Then again, it’s not so good to judge things and people based on first impressions. At least Tatsuki wasn’t here with her, if he died, she would disappear. Maybe if she ‘died’ in this place, she would go back to his dreams.

"That’s weird, how is it that you are the only one that survived? How many people came with you?"

Osage’s smile was back on her face when he said she was good company. It was nice to hear that.

 Kizami shrugged. "...well, technically, I, too, am dead.... just a different kind of dead, in a sense. #It is a little complicated, you see."

And he wouldn't explain it to her; he already was getting impatient with the girl. She had to ask questions, didn't she? Why not just accept that there were dead people and that was it.

 ”…T-thank you? Did the girl who had the name look like me too?”

She frowned. Madotsuki never disliked her name but she always found it odd. Why did her mother decide that ‘window’ was a good name?