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[cupidsammo]

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[cupidsammo]

[ whatcha lookin at... ]

Mm.

[ onwaaards. Koharu is silent as she changes direction to the station, but eventually: ]

... I thought these days would eventually get easier to deal with, but it—isn't at all.

[kumeyuri]

... It's probably a good thing that they haven't. If they did, that would mean you're getting desensitized.

[and that's not something he'd wish on her, when she never asked to be embroiled in this kind of thing.]

[cupidsammo]

Yeah...

... I just hate having to think about who could be next—which of my friends am I going to lose now? Which of them are we going to have to accuse...? It feels like it only hurts worse.

[kumeyuri]

[...

as they walk, he reaches out to give her a light pat on the back of her shoulder.]

In a way, it does. Losing people, that is. And you start to worry it won't end. [...] But one way or another, we'll make sure this does.

[cupidsammo]

What should we do? When it comes to figuring anything out... I don't know where to begin.

[kumeyuri]

... Confirming where the lost souls went is a good start. I think... this would become easier to bear if we knew what happened to them.

And Gamaliel said that they're figuring out the sender from the message yesterday, so that might be a lead for something.

[cupidsammo]

True... If anyone can figure it out, I'm sure she could do it.

[kumeyuri]

Yeah, that kind of stuff's outside of my alley, but it does seem like it's up hers.

[cupidsammo]

Mine too. I wish I could help, but I only really use computers to look stuff up on the internet.

[kumeyuri]

Well... even if we could help, I get the feeling Gamaliel would just say that it's her job to do, not ours.

[cupidsammo]

Probably...

But when I'm likely the only one who's even owned a smartphone before coming here, it kind of is her job now.

[kumeyuri]

[a huff]

Yeah, we're still counting on you to be our tech expert.

[cupidsammo]

That's a heavy responsibility...

[kumeyuri]

I'm sure you can do it.

[cupidsammo]

As long as no one needs anything more complicated than QR codes.

[kumeyuri]

Careful, you'll jinx it.

[cupidsammo]

I just might. But speaking of...

[kumeyuri]

[he blinks like ?]

[cupidsammo]

Well, it's just that I noticed that the past few times, we haven't been able to figure out the passcode on phones. Luckily it didn't turn out to be important, but I was thinking... maybe we should see how a phone is locked before we start trying to guess numbers.

[kumeyuri]

What do you mean? Like... if they all do the face thing like yours?

[cupidsammo]

That's right! There's a few different ways you can lock a phone. The passcodes are just the most common, but there's also face recognition, and using your fingerprint too.

[kumeyuri]

Oh... [fancy.] All right, we can keep those in mind for the future.

[cupidsammo]

Not that I'm really expecting most of you to know that, but... someone might learn it from somewhere?

[kumeyuri]

[a nod]

I don't bother with keeping my phone locked anyway, since it's not like I've got anything to hide here, but... some people probably get tired of the passcodes, especially if they're not used to the phones.

[cupidsammo]

[ just so they're actually going somewhere, it's train time now, choochoo ]

Yeah... Locking your phone is a totally normal thing so gunning for those isn't usually on my mind, but it seems like the others get hopeful there could be something at all on them.