shirowineryâ:
It seems obvious to Junko that this game is going to be over soon. Even without the announcement, thereâs not very many of them left, right? They could really only keep doing this for so long. Itâs a headache, really. Nothing to do but sit and wait. âWell. I think itâs obvious. Someoneâs. Going to kill. To get the trial. Weâre already so far in. Thereâs not a point to just. Waiting for the bomb. Anymore. Maybe the bombâs even a lie. But thereâs not a point. Something will happen. And people will go to Hell. And maybe this. Will be over with.â Sheâs staring at some point past Jinâs shoulder. âMaybe someone will just. Die to help us. It would be sad. But every way we get out has death. Or maybe we donât get out. We just stay here. Forever. I donât know. Weâll remember this anyways. And then weâll die.â
She taps her fingers on the table mindlessly.
âDo you think. Thereâs a point to it? We all go the same way.â
⊠Not a point in waiting for the bomb anymore? Actually, maybe that wasnât too surprising. All the talk of Hell and such gave Jin the impression that Junko probably would be all too willing to accept everything as some sort of final tribulation before the end times.
âThe only person here I could fathom being self-sacrificial enough to entertain that thought is you, Shirokawa, considering how much it seems like youâve just given up on the possibility of things being better. It makes every bit of sense for someone to kill - hell, it might even give them some leverage. Enough of you seem like bleeding hearts that Iâd buy you giving whoever committed the murder a chance to be part of the âendgameâ as it were as thanks.â
It might be a worthwhile gambit, if they were cornered come the next trial. Considering how lost everyone had seemed the last time, perhaps offering the guarantee of sparing their life in exchange for coming forward could work? Hopefully it wouldnât come to that.
âEven the most senseless-seeming violence is motivated by something. Thereâs some reason somebody is putting us through this. The way people have died is irrelevant. Someone put us in this situation, has a possible contingency in place to kill us all, but hasnât just executed all of us outright. We havenât all gone the same way, and from the sounds of it we arenât going to.â
Itâd be nice once the game finally ended and they could be done with the whole ordeal.
âOf course I have. Things never get better. For anybody. And I knew. When we woke up here. It was going to be awful. And I was right. No one is special here. Weâre all... awful. And tired. Iâm tired. I like sleeping better. Than thinking about all this.â
Someoneâs almost definitely going to kill, and probably hope theyâll survive, but does that really matter? There isnât a âgood endingâ one way or another. Junko finds herself too exhausted to care to separate one bad end from another.
âWeâll die. The bomb will go off. Or theyâll silence us. Or weâll just. Be so sad that weâll just. Slowly die in a heap. And living doesnât work. Something else bad will happen. I see it all the time.â















