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“It’s not a surprise if <span class="mu-i">your</span> expecting a surprise. Also, <span class="mu-i">your</span> more surprising.” You’re going to test if he can magically guess you’re using the wrong ‘your’. How does it work when you’re saying it? You don’t know! What would this accomplish? Something! What’s exactly? You don’t know yet. But it’ll be important, you’re sure of it.
“Expecting a surprise raises the bar for said surprise to be… surprising.” Berninie believes you’re being redundant on purpose so he follows along. He couldn’t see under the façade of your intricate wordplay! He’s no clairvoyant! “I’ll ask you a final time: Please, tell me something I don’t know.”
“I said it already: <span class="mu-s">What do you know that you don’t know?</span>” You repeat yourself feigning that these words have a deeper meaning, like a strange riddle needing to be figured out for enlightenment. “I don’t have to say more.” You continue acting mysteriously and otherworldly like a zebra.
“…It’s clear now.” Bernie has come to a conclusion. Behind his aloof smile, you can sense his tension. “Deep in me, the unwelcomed yet hilarious defeat I received left a wound. I feel again. I’m alive. How exciting. Thank you, Visage of my Subconsciousness.” Bernie lets the air out of his lungs.
For a brief moment, you felt like you were inside an unpigmented prison cell.
“Right…” You noticed how relieved he looks. It’s like Bernie answered his own questions with the help of your incoherent ramble. Is this how a tarot reader feels on average…? It’s certainly a different approach to your regular pseudo-psychiatrist sessions.
“Enjoy the night.” Satisfied, the creepy kid who’ll grow up to be a full-time creep disappears through the night the same way he came in.
You blink for a solid ten seconds before shaking your head and resuming control.
Gautier is walking aimlessly past the station, he’s probably going home.
<span class="mu-s">What do you do?</span>
>Go and talk to Gautier. He’s around, so why not?
>Try to find Ammirati and ask for an explanation.
>Pay Kobashi a visit.
>Go to Grace and Mirjam’s apartment.
>Write In.
