In a sense.

Think of it like trying to solve a maze, I guess. Every time there's a dead end, you can restart from the beginning. And... yes. For now, anyway, I always die if it's not the right one. I don't... really mind it anymore, I guess. It's just... necessary.

We've done a lot of terrible things. I've done a lot of terrible things. There are more terrible things I have left to do. For one thing in.... mmm, I think it's about fifty years? I'll need to run another Nonary Game.

Or, well, hopefully not, I guess.

Aoi, I think, is from... after this. After I managed to find a way to end the loop. I'm not. And so, for me, when I survive--if I survive--there's... something bad that will happen. A disease. A disease that will kill... almost everybody, one way or another.

Including Aoi, actually. That's... part of why I have to stop it. So until I do....

[She gives him a slight smile, weak though it is.]

I'm going to keep doing bad things.

So you see, I really can't judge you for doing something so similar.

I'm... sorry.

I wish I could have been who you thought I was.