It echoes weirdly enough that he doesn't say it, and he remembers--the second memory returned. Zero in the underground bunker, in the history where he--she?--was alive--and Junpei and Akane were 'dead.'
He pauses in his work, left hand still sitting in the rice, then retrieves it, shaking off the water and putting the inner pot down for a moment.]
We had... [He turns to her and draws a circle around his left wrist.] Bracelets. Each of the participants, with a number. No way to get them off unless we found the way out or died.
[He returns to the rice, draining it over his hand.]
We were told they were detonators for bombs we'd been forced to swallow while we unconscious. I... I never had to fight so hard for anything as I did then. To survive.
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It echoes weirdly enough that he doesn't say it, and he remembers--the second memory returned. Zero in the underground bunker, in the history where he--she?--was alive--and Junpei and Akane were 'dead.'
He pauses in his work, left hand still sitting in the rice, then retrieves it, shaking off the water and putting the inner pot down for a moment.]
We had... [He turns to her and draws a circle around his left wrist.] Bracelets. Each of the participants, with a number. No way to get them off unless we found the way out or died.
[He returns to the rice, draining it over his hand.]
We were told they were detonators for bombs we'd been forced to swallow while we unconscious. I... I never had to fight so hard for anything as I did then. To survive.