[ that doesn't seem to placate her; in fact her tone just gets more and more seething as she speaks. The bullets spinning around her fade away for now, and she removes her hat from her head, messing with the seams securing the hitaikakushi to it. ]
Heh. Don't think you're so high and mighty for your pragmatism. But I suppose I shouldn't be, either. I wasn't planning on voting at all. My place is to judge souls after they've died, not to make judgement on who does die...though it barely matters, here.
[ Once she has the cloth mostly dislodged, she strides over to Ema's body. ]
Ema-san was kind enough to "volunteer" [ said with the heaviest airquotes imaginable ] to die, yes? That itself means she shouldn't have. As much as I wouldn't like to throw oh, say, Harriet-san under the bus...she would have been a better candidate, as abrasive and selfish as she appears to be. No personal offense, of course! [ it's...hard to tell what exactly she means by that, as if she's contradicting herself on purpose. pointing her fan in Kaoru's direction ]
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[ that doesn't seem to placate her; in fact her tone just gets more and more seething as she speaks. The bullets spinning around her fade away for now, and she removes her hat from her head, messing with the seams securing the hitaikakushi to it. ]
Heh. Don't think you're so high and mighty for your pragmatism. But I suppose I shouldn't be, either. I wasn't planning on voting at all. My place is to judge souls after they've died, not to make judgement on who does die...though it barely matters, here.
[ Once she has the cloth mostly dislodged, she strides over to Ema's body. ]
Ema-san was kind enough to "volunteer" [ said with the heaviest airquotes imaginable ] to die, yes? That itself means she shouldn't have. As much as I wouldn't like to throw oh, say, Harriet-san under the bus...she would have been a better candidate, as abrasive and selfish as she appears to be. No personal offense, of course! [ it's...hard to tell what exactly she means by that, as if she's contradicting herself on purpose. pointing her fan in Kaoru's direction ]
Or maybe...you?