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[...You wake up.

The room you wake up in is only full of as many pods as there are surviving Champions. The Doctor is already gone. Xander is not with you.

The pods aren't claustrophobic, they're clear, bullet-shaped glass pods. You wake up with an oxygen mask over your face, and your PIP monitoring your vital signs. The bed you're lying on is as plush and comfortable as the inside of a coffin looks, and when you wake the glass over top of you rises.

Instead of a feeding tube, there's a white square patch on each Champion's stomach. There's no intravenous fluids and no medical tubes to detach aside from the oxygen mask. You're free to get up as soon as you're awake. You'll be a little wobbly at first, but otherwise experience no ill effect.

Feel free to explore, Champions.

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After today in particular, I hate the concept and would sooner break both your legs. But I'll take what I can get.

Who was she?

... I don't remember.

Convenient, and yet I hesitantly believe that.

My mind is a scramble- I'm sorry.

I'm too godsdamned tired to yell at you today, Xander.

... There is something I do need to answer you. I was asked before why they picked me, rather then any of the rest of you. I know think I know why.

I'm listening, Xander.

[Xander makes sure to gesture Jane and Yurika over specifically- they.... deserve to hear this.]

They tapped me for this, I assume....

...because I was already working for them, in my group. They tasked me to watch our Overseers, and report their behavior back. With similar promises that they used this time.

What?

[WHY DOES EVERYTHING YOU SAY MAKE HIM WANT TO KICK YOUR ASS?!]

I didn't know Elise was... gone... at that point. But my middle sister, Corrin betrayed our family for her birth family in Hoshido. They... made promises to help me get her back. I am her elder brother and there is nothing I wouldn't do for her sake, same with Elise and my other siblings. I couldn't bare to let her go.

They used my weakness against me.

Gods, why is it always siblings with you people...

You're an idiot. That's all I'm going to say on it, because if I think any longer on the matter I'll take that punch today.

[ Hey ]

I owe you much more then a punch- but I only ask it wait until we're free and my other debts are paid.

No promises. When this is over, I might just maim you.

But for the moment, I will exercise my limitless patience and make an effort not to knock your jaw out of alignment until we're out of here.

[...]

But you ever lay a hand on Leonard Church again and I break your neck.

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..........................Oh.

[He shakes his head sadly]

I know now I was just... scared. That our family was going to fall apart. It wasn't fair to her, to keep her trapped with us because I couldn't let go.

She's happy now. Without me.

You were what? So there really was a mole the whole time?

I was not working against you all, only against Jamie and Bolton.

They backstab their Overseers, too. Not just their Champions.

Yes. It's all just a massive game, with us as the pawns.

Junpei-kun and Touko-chan call them games, too, and so did Togami-san. Whoever came up with a game like this must have been really, really mad about losing Monopoly.

...Oh...

[Oh God. Fuck...these people...]

God damn it...

...I'm sorry, Jane. It seems so long ago now, but I know the me of then didn't want to hurt any of you. He.... I... was too weak to resist the chance to have my family back.

N...No, I...I'm not mad at you, I'm...I'm really mad at these people, they...they keep...

[They keep taking this sad, broken man and dangle his family in front of him cruelly and tauntingly...and Jane finally, finally knows why her chest would hurt when she looked at Xander, because the feeling comes back.

It's heartbreak.]

Still... you should be angry. While I couldn't remember you and the others, I still accepted what they asked me to do.