[The power of projection is strong with this one. Midori probably knew he'd liked Kanna, if he'd had access to the cameras, and anything Shin had liked was fair game.
Shin oscillates between giving Sara too much credit and not enough and that's painfully obvious here; if he places them on the same pedestal why wouldn't she be able to hold her own. She's the weirdly powerful high schooler, who he couldn't touch at all even cosplaying Midori. A stronger person than either Shin or Kanna, in his mind.
Still, relief does settle him a bit. Kanna's fine, that's what he wanted.]
I-it can't have been that easy... can it?
[Dead. He's... well he's going to have to process that. Somehow. He has no idea what he's feeling... relief? Disappointment? Loss? Bitterness that he never got to see it, say anything? He knows Midori's little games; 'I know you can't do this, but it'll be fun to see you struggle'. 'If you win it doesn't matter to me'. At the time he'd taken them as challenges.]
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Shin oscillates between giving Sara too much credit and not enough and that's painfully obvious here; if he places them on the same pedestal why wouldn't she be able to hold her own. She's the weirdly powerful high schooler, who he couldn't touch at all even cosplaying Midori. A stronger person than either Shin or Kanna, in his mind.
Still, relief does settle him a bit. Kanna's fine, that's what he wanted.]
I-it can't have been that easy... can it?
[Dead. He's... well he's going to have to process that. Somehow. He has no idea what he's feeling... relief? Disappointment? Loss? Bitterness that he never got to see it, say anything? He knows Midori's little games; 'I know you can't do this, but it'll be fun to see you struggle'. 'If you win it doesn't matter to me'. At the time he'd taken them as challenges.]
It must have been impossibly close.