probe | Audience: Ashiya Douman

[YEAH DON'T JUST SAY YEAH TO ALL OF THAT]

Um. [Well, yes, that's...similar to Limbo, probably. Though they shudder to think of what Limbo might have done, being able to swap bodies at will.] Well. T-thank you. That...means a lot to me.

[it's fine.]

Of course. [...] Uncle did the swap before to protect me and my mom. I don't think he knew how bad things were gonna get. You didn't know what would happen when you and Limbo were merged together either, did you?

...No, I didn't.

[How could they? How could they anticipate that terrible fate, that monster?]

[How could they have looked in the mirror and expected to see the horrifying vision that met their eyes?]

If I could have known, I would have stopped it...but, even so...I was weak. [Douman's eyes water.] I was too weak.

It wasn't your fault. Things like that? It doesn't have anything to do with you being too weak.

[truthfully she doesn't entirely know, but given what she's been made aware of...she doesn't believe it was their fault at all.]

But it does, I...when Limbo came to me, they told me...

[And a shuddering sigh.]

"If things remain as they are, you'll never once surpass Seimei." And I just...couldn't handle it. It was at that moment that they slipped into my body. If only I had...held out longer...

...but Limbo knew just what to say to get you to let your guard down. That's still not your fault. Even if it hurt you, it shouldn't have come to that in the first place.

It was because I wasn't good enough that I was vulnerable.

[Ah, what a miserable state. Always last. Always hated. Always never good enough.]

[The people of Limbo, they live in longing-]

...Ah. [Douman wipes their eyes with a sleeve.] There's no use crying over it now. It isn't as if anything will change, now. I'm dead, after all.