... I was worried, had no other force influenced you, they would have forced your hand by threatening her even more.
[ after all, people who take hostages, real or not, are willing to do any terrible thing. ]
I will do my best so everyone is saved. If this place is like any of the others, you won't be completely out of reach. I'll try to find a way to contact you.
[His smile is almost wan as he keeps mum. Would he have bent his knee to threats? After all that Mari's had to endure . . . A large, selfish part of him believes he wouldn't.]
Coming from you, I'll believe it. And I'll return that favor.
[After all the hours that were poured into discerning the truth, he can't refuse her.]
. . . When I saw Flayn in the lobby after leaving the room, I had to go after her. I ran her into the gift shop, and we had a scuffle there; in the process of her escaping, I hit the wall and cut my hand on the snow globe. Then I followed her to the butterfly garden, where she tried to lose me . . . and I broke her neck.
[He says it simply, because even that wouldn't have sufficed. That he did it at all is a sin, which Shinobu surely understands. But when he thinks about the terror he must've prolonged with each second he slipped or lost sight of Flayn, he can only curse his incompetence in even failure.]
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[ after all, people who take hostages, real or not, are willing to do any terrible thing. ]
I will do my best so everyone is saved. If this place is like any of the others, you won't be completely out of reach. I'll try to find a way to contact you.
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Coming from you, I'll believe it. And I'll return that favor.
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I try not say anything I don't mean.
[ unless it's to a demon. ]
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Is there anything else you have to say, then? If not, you should go and get some rest.
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Will you tell me how it ended?
[ give her the murder plot run down. ]
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. . . When I saw Flayn in the lobby after leaving the room, I had to go after her. I ran her into the gift shop, and we had a scuffle there; in the process of her escaping, I hit the wall and cut my hand on the snow globe. Then I followed her to the butterfly garden, where she tried to lose me . . . and I broke her neck.
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.... it's not great, but it could have been worse. she takes it in as impassively as possible, but shinobu has never been impassive. ]
At least it wasn't too drawn out.
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[He says it simply, because even that wouldn't have sufficed. That he did it at all is a sin, which Shinobu surely understands. But when he thinks about the terror he must've prolonged with each second he slipped or lost sight of Flayn, he can only curse his incompetence in even failure.]