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We're Still Here, We Still Have Each Other

[It takes Fukawa some time to pull herself together but when she does-- she moves with a purpose. Everyone will find a note in practiced writing:]

Though all we've be through today was awful, and you might not want to face it-- you're not facing it alone. There will be food and drink in the VIP Lounge. And company. Whatever your feelings are now, it's okay. I won't tell you want to think or how to feel. But you don't have to carry it alone.

- Touko Lucis Caelum

[True to her word, she worked hard to make snacks and light warm foods for everyone as well as drinks-- alcoholic and otherwise. Everyone is welcome. She even stops by the information desk to extend an invitation to SIS.]

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[Arianna gets all the way up to the convenience store, then back down to the VIP lounge with an armful of prepackaged snacks, before she remembers they don't need them. She unceremoniously dumps them on the bar anyway with a sigh.

She feels like shit, but after having looked at everyone else, it seems like she might actually feel the least like shit out of everyone, and that position comes with responsibilities. So she makes her usual rounds at the party, checking on everyone.]

Thank you, Arianna-chan.

[Yurika takes a pack of cookies from Arianna's pile and smiles weakly.]

You're always thinking of us.

...not you, this time.

[Nari's the one who never trusted other people's food.]

Nari-san was one of us, too. What she did, how she thought, how she treated most people -- that was horrible. But she was one of our own. Thinking of her isn't unusual.

She was my friend. --before, I mean. In this place we could never seem to get along.

She definitely wanted to throw away her past, didn't she? You heard what she said to Church-san.

I don't believe it.

You think she was trying to make it easier for us to vote for her? By saying all those awful things?

Or perhaps she meant to convince herself, and thereby not fear death.

That she deserved it, you mean?

Perhaps. I cannot be certain, I suppose.

Maybe we'll never know. But I know we'll bring them all back and at least start making things right again. We came really close.

...I wish to. Not only with this "show," but with everyone. I want to be her friend again.

I hope so. ...Wait, you weren't that old girlfriend, were you? Here I am, speculating on Nari-san's salacious past and the lady she loved and left when Pyrrha-chan came along, and I'm being insensitive!