countermeasures | chroma | catchall for kazunari miyoshi

I think some of us... have experience with unpleasant things like this already. It wouldn't be fair to have to experience more of them, but at least we would be prepared for it.

But someone like him...

[feels bad, man.]

He's just a kid who misses his brother. He shouldn't have to get used to something like this.

[ as if kazunari himself is much better, but at least he's an adult? kumopi's still a kid. ]

If there's a way we can stop this kind of thing from happening, we need to find it quickly.

We do.

[she is so sick of this shit and it's only their second week of murder.]

There has to be a way. I refuse to accept that we have no choice but to repeat this sort of thing.

I don't understand why we'd have to go through this at all... What does the prism even get out of it?

I know it wants balance, but nothing about this feels balanced at all.

...it doesn't. But maybe it's decided there are... too many of us, and is attempting to balance things by disposing of some of our number.

I'd prefer to believe that wasn't the case, though...

Wouldn't it be a little easier to figure out, if that were the case? It would just evening out the numbers, right? It like even numbers.

But we've lost two Verdant now, and no Heliotrope or Metallic, so it's even more out of balance than before. I can't make any sense of it at all.

I can't, either.

[unless it's trying to whittle them down until there's only one of each number. yikes.]

And that's twice that someone who had those weird experiences was the victim... You don't think that would have anything to do with it, would you? Like... maybe something about what they've gone through makes them "unbalanced" in the prism's eyes, or something?

I'm not sure. It could simply be a coincidence...

[but it's also possible that it could be a pattern. her brow furrows.]

Verifying it would require further loss of life, so I think I could go without an answer to that question. But if it does happen again... we can make a determination from there.