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Rosalind Lutece

Doctor of physics, professor at Recollé University.

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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.

Why? That seems a perfectly rational action.

But it's not... honorable, I guess.
If I have the power to help them, I should have helped them.

[Hm.]

Let me see if I have this right.

You-- or this other you, anyway-- were once part of the yakuza. You and Majima both. You specifically don't know some of the things you did, but it's fair to assume you were involved in your fair share of nefarious activities. And at one point, you went to jail for a murder you didn't commit and let a murderer go free (was this on the orders of the yakuza, I wonder?)

And then you were going to leave them, but Majima died, likely because of activities relating to that lifestyle.

Have I got all that right?

[ Ah yes... she knows more about him than most people. He'd almost forgotten... ]

Yeah, that sounds about right.

[ God, his life is complicated. ]

Why is it you're so compelled to help them? In your other life, you were compelled to leave them; in this life, you've no ties to them. They're nothing more than criminals, aren't they?

They feel like family.
And Majima is one of them.

[Ah. Well . . .]

There must have been a reason for you wanting to leave, though. Given those feelings, I doubt you'd do it on a whim.

I know, but still...
If I'd been there, I could have helped Majima.

Do you know that for a fact?

No.
I just wish I'd been there.

That's understandable. But don't make the mistake of blaming yourself for an event you don't fully remember, for something that you might not even have been able to prevent. It will do neither of you any good.

[ He sighs, thinking back to another death he'd remembered... one he'd been too late to stop as well. It's hard. ]

Yeah. I guess not.

I don't know for sure that he died, either. I only heard it on the radio.

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