PRIVATE MEETINGS

[andexecutioner]

If you'd like to have a private meeting with the Adjudicator, this is where you should go! The Adjudicator is available at almost all hours of the day; just knock and he'll answer.

Comments are screened for privacy; no eavesdropping, that's rude.

Comments

[andexecutioner]

[HE SUFFERS SO MUCH. okay not really but being nice to people is hard, no one understands, etc.]

Yeah, well. I don't know either.

[...]

Not like it's. Bad. Or anything. It's not, but...I don't know, I'm not really used to casual conversation with people.

[fortunatedetective]

There was a time not too long ago when I was rather inept at talking to people in a friendly manner. "I'm not interested in 'hanging out', nor I'm interested in you". Now I realize that was rather...blunt of me.

[Naoto is deep in thought]

I was working in a murder case back at home, and through it I got in contact with a group of people of my age. Somehow...we ended working together, and soon turned into friends. I remember feeling so lost and hesitant for so long, not knowing how to react to their attempts to be friendly...but then I got used to it.

[It's not meant to be a lecture of any sorts, or an attempt to tell Juri to change. Seems like she's just sharing her own experiences]

Getting used to it depends on how willing you are to let it happen, and you already said several times you don't want it. I sympathize with that more than you think.

[andexecutioner]

[He shrugs.]

Sometimes I talk to people, but they're not really anyone I'd consider friends. Just people I know. I kind of wonder why they bother sometimes.

[fortunatedetective]

I don't know either. Maybe they think that by reaching to you we'll have better chances to win the game? That'd be a flawed plan. These games aren't won with promises of friendship.

[When has a criminal changed their mind with such sappy ideas? Really.

Naoto stands up, taking the chessboard and the empty cups of coffee]

I'll be back next week, Juri-san. Take care.

[She won't]