ic contact;

[condoner]

This is Tsunemori! I'm sorry, I'm not here right now, but please leave a message. I promise to get back to you once I'm able. Thank you very much! ( action → text → voice → video )

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[abhors]

Perhaps he'll write you a detailed report. [ A really dry, deadpan joke. ]

What about you? Do you want to talk about the new set of memories you gained during your absence? [ They put it off the last time she called him, but since he's here and eating breakfast... ]

[condoner]

[ akane looks down at her food, wondering what she should say. it might be difficult to talk about it without revealing the truth about sybil, but she'll try. ]

Have you ever wondered how it would be like if Sybil could judge groups, apart from single identities?

[abhors]

A collective Psycho-Pass? That sounds dangerous.

[condoner]

There was a criminal that Sybil couldn't even identify. If you point a Dominator at him, you wouldn't even get anything. It turns out, he's had so many surgeries and his body parts are from close to two-hundred different people.

[abhors]

That's new. [ The possibility of something like that never even crossed his mind, and yet the part about there being another flaw in the system hardly shocks him. ]

I can't imagine our friend Sibyl being happy about that.

[condoner]

The investigation was definitely very difficult.

[ she sighs. ]

But Sybil's evolved, Kogami. Sybil is able to judge a collective, now.

[abhors]

I'm sorry, but that's not a comforting thought for me.

[ He doesn't know the nature of the Sibyl System to at least see one big benefit in this, which is that it can also be judged. ]

[condoner]

Of course not.

[ there's a reason why kogami is a fugitive now. ]

You don't have to apologise.

There's a little more to that story, but I'm afraid it's confidential.

[abhors]

It must be something far bigger than what you already shared. [ He'd think the part about someone being invisible to Sibyl would be confidential enough. ]

But I understand it has nothing to do with me anymore. I trust in your intuition, Tsunemori, society is better off with people like you protecting it.

[condoner]

I hope you're right.

[ come to think of it, a thought hits her... ]

Kogami, have you ever heard of an Enforcer named Sakuya Togane?

[abhors]

Only in passing. I'm aware that he was making some waves before I joined the MWPSB.

Not the kind most Inspectors liked to discuss at the time...

[condoner]

We had the pleasure of working with him. It wasn't the best of experiences.

[abhors]

So they replaced me with another problematic Enforcer? That's our Sibyl...

What troubles me is that it's unlike you to not get along with your subordinates.

[condoner]

[ she did think of togane as somebody similar to kogami. ]

I thought we would get along, too. But he had plans to cloud my hue.

[abhors]

He what? What are you talking about?

[ Why?? ]

[condoner]

I still don't know what his motives were, [ MAYBE IF MIKA TALKED. ] but he did succeed.

[ just a little bit. ]

I'm fine now, though.

[abhors]

[ You're both terrible Inspectors who don't tell each other the truth!! ]

...How did he succeed? [ He can tell she's fine now, of course, but that still disturbs him to hear it. Tsunemori has already proven herself resilient in his experience. ]

[condoner]

[ she takes a sip of her coffee before answering. also, mika is more terrible. ]

He killed my grandmother.

[abhors]

[ His facial reaction is subtle, but somewhere deep down he can feel his own crime coefficient going up a few ticks. ]

Akane... [ She came back with that memory and hasn't said anything? That's the second person in her life who paid the price for the Inspector's pure heart just by virtue of knowing her. It's not fair, and yet he knows that this is the danger that comes with having friends and family outside of work. Still... Akane Tsunemori is the last person who deserves this kind of suffering, and to what end? What was it for?

He wishes he had more comforting words to say other than slipping up with her name, so he just briefly pats her shoulder for now. There are times to be professional, and others to be just humans who have known loss. ]

I'm sorry.

[condoner]

[ it's touching, but she doesn't really know what to say about it. of course, she's not over it yet, but she knows that she'll get better over time.

she looks at the hand on her shoulder, trying not to show any sign of weakness, though kogami can likely tell that she's grieving. ]

I'll be fine.

[abhors]

[ He knows that she's doing better than he would, at least. ]

I know. You always are. [ Even when you're not. ]

[ But it's also what makes her so different from anyone else he's worked with or under... ]

I know you dealt with it in the right way, too. [ Not because he appeared to her in a hallucination or anything. ]

[condoner]

[ she didn't deal with it directly, but he's right. it was sybil who judged togane, not her. that's the right way, isn't it? ]

It was right for me, [ she says. akane knows what's 'right' for kogami isn't usually the same thing she thinks of. ]

[abhors]

I may not have dealt with it in the same way, but I always thought that yours was the correct one. [ He wrote as much in his goodbye letter. ]

You protected the law, Tsunemori. It wasn't right for you alone.

[condoner]

I think that's enough gloom in one conversation, Kogami. Don't you think?

[abhors]

I can't help it, I majored in gloomy conversations. [ It's said with a smile, indicating that he agrees. ]

Do you celebrate your birthdays, Tsunemori?