...You could say the entire game was wasting our lives without reason, ahaha. I think you're giving them too much credit, Miss Sara. Those attractions could have been lethal, you know. Not to mention the first trials...

[Put there to thin out the herd... Disgusting, really. He faces her haunted expression with an empty smile before turning his head away.]

But execution... can't be they just got bored, could it?

[He glances back up at her after she squares her shoulders and asks.]

.......It's like you said, isn't it? If we want a clue, then we have to go forward.

[The worst part about things like this, he doesn't miss it. Nobody will just give you the answers, Shin. Go find things out for yourself. But he can brace himself for what they might find. It's not real. It never happened. This is all just... the school's macabre puppet show. Kanna is out there and alive and... as fine as he could hope for. And himself... well, he's died before...

...and the elevator is still there. There's a beat and then he starts moving.]