network, during the family meeting

[contrarily]

this is your cute idol, rika-chan, reporting from jail!!
SOMEONE COME BREAK ME OUT
IM BORED AND I MISS BEING FREE
it's been so long since i've seen the sky... or breathed fresh air... please... i'm fading...

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[silentabyss]

[To anyone else, Noah wouldn't nod and go along with "killing to protect" just because in the classroom not too far down the hall, everyone's probably talking about the murders presently. To say that he'd kill to protect would implicate him somehow, and if others suddenly start to suspect him of something, he's not sure how he'd defend himself. He's already likely known as a punchy kid, someone with the power to kill; why would he risk confirming people's beliefs about him in such a bad situation?

But to Komaeda, who sees past all of that, all he can manage is a nod. They can go back and forth on their understanding of one another ad infinitum, but Komaeda is the weird hopeful nihilist to his hopeless idealist. That's a point they can connect on, somehow — sometimes Noah needs the reminder that not everything can be sunshine and rainbows even though he wishes it would be.

Maybe Noah's just paranoid. Maybe they're all weird here, maybe he's not the only one that would absolutely shank someone to ensure the safety of another. Maybe they're all guilty at the end of the day.]

Yeah, I... I guess. It's just the... "overcoming" their deaths that's difficult.

[Who's going to honour their memories if he doesn't?]

The stronger I get, the more people I can protect. That's why... that's why I can't give up. There are people depending on me.