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DRAMA

[You step into a small room, reasonably comfortable room with plenty of chairs for you to sit on, and the door promptly locks behind you. Everything is decorated in your team colors, with splashes of neutral cream.]

On one wall is a huge, laminated poster bearing your instructions. On the lone table in the middle of the room, you find a tall glass cylinder labelled "Bank"; it contains 15 small orbs in your team color. You also find: four buttons (Hand, Shield, Lunch, Kit) that you can press should you wish to make a purchase; the six cards that are to be your starting hand; and five card-shaped, team-colored slots. Your team color is notably missing.

Everything is utterly indestructible, no matter what you try to do.]

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I'm not sure our standards on maiming count for most of the people here, Kudo-kun.

I doubt our standards are that similar.

[deadpanned] Because I think our worst card is the deaging one, not the kill cards.

Ha ... ha ...

That is a ridiculous card.

You have no idea.

Oh, I have a thought or two.

Kudo "Solstice" Shinichi was on Iris, after all ...

. . . ah. So he was like that, there.

Mmmhm. He was.

. . . at the very least, that card out of all of them is the least . . . damaging. It's difficult, but it isn't - [it's difficult to logic through this, and he makes a frustrated noise] - it can be done. It's only physical. If I can survive like that, someone else can.

And if they're stuck like that ...?

We don't know how badly we could be affecting their lives.

I know exactly how badly we'd be affecting them.

I'm just saying that some people could maybe handle it better than others.

[ S-Sighs. ]

Which would you rather play, Kudo-kun? Out of all of them except the kill cards?