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Rosalind Lutece

Doctor of physics, professor at Recollé University.

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Fuck.
The second half of this sent to someone else.

It's about Majima, though.
Not the other thing.

[ The thing he knows that he wouldn't put into text because he's at least smarter than that...... ]

[no, that wouldn't be good to discuss over text, would it . . .]

What about him?

I remembered something about him.
I'm not sure what to do about it.

I should tell him, shouldn't I?

Likely, yes. What was it that has you hesitating?

It's bad news.
I'm worried about what it could mean for us down the line.

You already have my promise I shan't speak of the other thing. I won't of this either, if you'd like to discuss it in more detail.

The things we remember here, they're because it's who we really are.
The memories and the powers are ours.
But what if we're dead?
Do you think we could end up getting that back?

[There's a long pause.]

I don't know.

[Another pause.]

I think not, but that may just be wishful thinking.

Yeah.
Retrospec wouldn't be doing all this, restoring our worlds or whatever they're doing, if they were going to kill us.
Probably? I don't know anymore.

I'd say no, likely not-- only one person died this past month, which is nearly unbelievable when you take into account all that's happened.

But I would tell him, regardless. He has a right to know.

Yeah. It wouldn't make sense.

But I will. I try not to keep secrets from him. It wouldn't be right.

If he takes it poorly--

[And frankly, who wouldn't?]

--you can at the very least assure him he isn't the only one here who has remembered such a thing.

[What a stiff way to put it. It's almost as if she's trying to divorce herself from the emotion entirely.]

Oh. I had no idea.

[ He takes it super well, actually, but that's the kind of sad person Majima is.... ]

I'm sorry, Professor.

It's perfectly all right, though I appreciate the sentiment. But it's something I've grown to accept.

I guess we all die sometime.

Remembering it can't have been easy.

[There's a pause.]

It was a quick death. An explosion. I recall no pain.

Oh.

[ He kinda feels like he keeps sticking his foot in his mouth, but that's our boy Kiryu for you. ]

I'm sorry.

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[Oddly enough, that makes her chuckle.]

It really is all right.

[It really isn't, but that's not his fault. She pauses for a long few moments before adding:]

Truth be told, the person I was upset over wasn't myself. Odd, but I think you might understand the sentiment.

Yeah. I think I know what you mean.

I wouldn't be this upset if I didn't care about him.

Did you see it happen in your memory? Or hear about it?

I heard it on the radio.
It was a news report about his death.

How did he die?

Some kind of accident.
The news report didn't specify.
I would guess it was some kind of hit.

[ Just being honest here... ]

[I mean. Probably. Still, the news turns her stomach.]

I see.

Are you all right?

[He'd said he was upset, but . . .]

I guess.
I just.
I'm angry at myself.

In my memory, I was turning my back on them.
On the yakuza.
I would have abandoned them if Majima hadn't died.

That doesn't seem right.