fluffier | 7rings: aoi

But ya still like 'im?

... Not sure...

[ she just repeats: ]

He was nice to Aoi.

[ She's just going to gently hug Aoi's face to her chest. ]

Yeah. It's okay to be sad.

[ soft... aoi is too stupid to hug back, but she still relaxes into the embrace. ]

It is?

'Course. Yer head tells ya what the right and wrong thing to do is, but ya can't help how yer heart feels.

[ squeezes ]

Carin' about someone ain't a bad thing.

But it makes it feel bad when this happens.

[ when they die - or get sentenced to death. ]

And this keeps happening.

Yeah... Though normally people aren't dyin' every week.

[ so her advice still feels pretty solid?? ]

... But that's what it's like here.

... Yeah. But we gotta care about people. Otherwise we'll all end up killers.

Aoi doesn't think that the killers don't care about people...

Well, Fukuda obviously cared about some people.

But it's probably easier to murder when ya close yer heart, don'cha think?

... That sounds hard to do... Aoi couldn't do it.

Hehe, that's a good thing. Are ya makin' friends here?

Nope.

[ she sounds completely neutral about this! it's fine. ]

E...eh? Yer not? But ya must get along with people?

Aoi was friends with Kaz and Fukuda.

[ my kazaoi :sob: ]

...

Well, there's plenty of nice people 'round here! Like Shi Qingxuan and Mineo, have ya talked to 'em?

Yep. Everyone here is nice to Aoi.

And Aoi likes both of them a lot.

Then aren't ya friends with 'em?

Not sure. How do you know?

[ ... ]

If ya like them and they like ya, that means yer friends!

But Aoi was told you aren't just friends because someone says you are.

They're not! Ya can't just say yer friends, ya gotta act like 'em. Get it?

How?

Texting?

No, like... doin' nice things for each other! Tryin' to make 'em happy. That kinda stuff.

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