"A couple months ago, I caught a fever that charred my flesh away and turned all my bodily fluids into magma. You held the bucket as I vomited slag. Until the bucket melted, naturally."
His eye contact broke, and he rubbed at his jaw. Bringing that up made it feel as though he was trying to compete over who had it worse. That wasn't his style, and whatever Kiyotaka was dealing with, he certainly wasn't lying. It would be foolish to undermine whatever was going on.
"I don't say this to claim you're wrong. Only that this campus is fond of pulling pranks, and memory loss is not beyond it."
He straightened again, smoothing his jacket. Somehow, eye contact felt much harder than a moment earlier.
"I won't claim that this school is worse than your last one. You..." The videos. He'd tried not to watch them, not to question them. But he'd seen the effect they'd had. "You never told me about what happened there."
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His eye contact broke, and he rubbed at his jaw. Bringing that up made it feel as though he was trying to compete over who had it worse. That wasn't his style, and whatever Kiyotaka was dealing with, he certainly wasn't lying. It would be foolish to undermine whatever was going on.
"I don't say this to claim you're wrong. Only that this campus is fond of pulling pranks, and memory loss is not beyond it."
He straightened again, smoothing his jacket. Somehow, eye contact felt much harder than a moment earlier.
"I won't claim that this school is worse than your last one. You..." The videos. He'd tried not to watch them, not to question them. But he'd seen the effect they'd had. "You never told me about what happened there."