[ tsumugi stops in his steps, gaze falling to the floor guiltily. of course he knows that all too well, maybe even more so than hiyori since he was the one who burned the records of their infamy after he'd been stripped of the fine uniform and thrown aside.

how the tables have turned for the former protagonists. ]

...It's still not right. They were forced to pick one person to execute, after all. It would've been better if they were both picked in a double execution just like the previous cases, but --

[ no, that's still too cruel no matter how anyone looks at it. ichigo and akira didn't deserve what came for them. ]

But it's all over now, right? The game's over, and they can go all go home while we... We weren't even given a swan song.

[ this is all too much for tsumugi's numb brain to process, so he just. heavily leans back on a bookcase, not caring if the books topple over or not. he wants to scream so badly right now. ]