Audience: Mineo Enomoto

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[sengokus]

You can't tell me answers even during court, Greed-san....

[ . . . . but he nods.]

Okay. I mean... Takeru and I will work with it. I just... don't like seeing all these people dying.

[and then, a pause - ]

.... Sloth-san said something briefly to me, and I think it was about their home but... The idea of - 'undying'. That's what I'm trying to do by being here but... the people who die while they're here.

Do they get... what, a third chance somehow? Is there any way to bring them back? Through wishes maybe...?

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[well. fair point. there's another considerable pause though.]

Have you asked Sloth about this?

[sengokus]

[he shakes his head]

No, not about things here. Is that where I should start?

[a beat]

Can you just tell me whether or not I should give up on it?

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I could tell you what to think or what you should do, but I feel as though it'd be ineffective. You really are the only one who can make that decision regardless of what I say.

[sengokus]

Hmm... That's true. I am pretty stubborn. Okay. [he'll give that one up] Then I'll tell you that if there's a way, I want to help everyone we've lost so far - uh. 'Un-die', I guess.

Are you saying it might be difficult?

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I'm saying that perhaps it would be best to focus on what's happening here and not on the people who have died.

[which sounds a little callous, yes, but their claws click against their mug a bit like they're anxious.]

...spending too much time focusing on the dead will only set you back further.

[sengokus]

[ . . . . . he tilts his head.]

I want to do both.

[he did say he was stubborn - but almost as a compromise, he'll follow greed's line of conversation.]

By 'what's happening here'.... Do you mean the murders? Or... [he looks away before looking back] The visions that we've been getting when we investigate. The eye that Vira-san and Grace-san found.

Are those parts of a bigger puzzle we're supposed to solve?

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The murders, mostly. You've yet to find the motive of why these cases are happening, have you?

[though hm. yes. there sure is all of that that's happening.]

Miss Monroe spoke to me about the eye, but what visions have you experienced?

[sengokus]

[ . . . he looks thoughtful.]

So there's a motive? For sure? It's not just indulgences? Because Takeru said that when he talked to an Avatar, he was told that the robot just felt like killing and got the go-ahead.

[but there is so much going on greed wow]

Mm... White-kun and I separately went to check out the jail on different days. It's why I got tripped up at trial. When I went to the jail, I saw a vision of being chained up inside a church. I was beaten pretty badly afterward, and had this sense of... well, hopelessness. [which is. hard. even now he seems to have difficulty shaking it]

So I thought that maybe the things that happened during curfew could be tied to location - because of the hand that showed up last week in the med bay. I thought that was just done to make the people in the group panic. Like a cruel trick.

But now I think it seems like every part could really be related to the murders.

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That's not what I said. I asked if you've found a motive at all.

[then again sometimes your motive really just is that you're a trigger-happy robot and wish to kill.]

But that isn't a terrible theory.

[mineo can take that as he wants to, if only because greed seems distracted about that vision.]

Should this occur again next week, I'd like to see you apply that thought to the case. See if that provides you with a list of places and suspects any sooner.

[sengokus]

Hmm.... Not so far, no. Not besides the robot's. But I guess we can double-check and find out if there's... something else to it.

[he tilts his head. is that what he should be following??]

Mm.... I'll try.

Do you think that the curfew stuff can point to suspects too...? [his brow furrows] Have they so far, and we've missed it?

[the fact that he has to conspiracy board this is so terrible]

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I'm of the opinion that every amount of information you get can provide you with answers should you know how to apply it and interpret it.

But there are things you have missed simply by not interpreting their role correctly.

[sengokus]

[ . . . . hmmmm. he nods.]

I see. .... I'll regroup with some people and see if we can go back to the drawing board.

[more effort!!

but he at least doesn't have more to follow on that end yet]

.... about the floors.... Are they related to you all as Avatars, Greed-san? I heard the third floor is pretty much Pride-san's rooms? I need to talk to them myself about it though...

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Too many of the wrong questions will lead you to a dead end. [ominous, but sure! they simply mean that if mineo's going to speak to pride, try to ask good questions or he'll find himself shut out entirely.]

I wouldn't say that the floors are related to us. There are some areas that are more familiar to some of us than others, but they aren't "ours", so to speak.

[sengokus]

Ah.... Got it.

[a little fearful but he will do his best]

No...? Okay. Do you know when your floor's coming up? I wanna see your favorite room you were talking about.

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I imagine it will be sooner than you think.

[like. two days. but greed won't just say that.]