They said that someone from the outside was trying to sabotage the game... that if I didn't end it quickly, we would all die. You would have died...
[But that was a lie? It sounds like it might be a lie, from the way Kaoru is talking, and that thought chills her to the bone. If not for that, she might have clutched at him more tightly as he tried to pull away; as it is, she stays still, her expression becoming more and more horrified and panicked.
Recaptured—
What does that mean... what does that mean?]
We can't have been. We're— in Edo. This isn't... that place, it isn't that castle, those people aren't here! The producers— They're not here—
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[But that was a lie? It sounds like it might be a lie, from the way Kaoru is talking, and that thought chills her to the bone. If not for that, she might have clutched at him more tightly as he tried to pull away; as it is, she stays still, her expression becoming more and more horrified and panicked.
Recaptured—
What does that mean... what does that mean?]
We can't have been. We're— in Edo. This isn't... that place, it isn't that castle, those people aren't here! The producers— They're not here—