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[hanaban]

[ if it were any other day, Hanako would probably be taking out the guards and smashing open locks, but today, he just looks spent, all the fight out of him ]

...in the end, did you accomplish anything?

[ it probably cheered Mika up a lot, knowing how many people came here for her sake. that's something. ]

[tongshi]

... got Mika to smile. And she wasn't alone.

[ giving him a wry smile. he doesn't regret doing this, but he does regret not being able to do more. ]

[hanaban]

That's good.

[ He also did what he could to get Mika to smile, but in the end...

in the end... ]

...I'm grateful you did something.

[tongshi]

[ in the end, there wasn't anything that anybody could have done. ]

What was done to her wasn't right. Didn't really sit with me.

[hanaban]

It isn't. This place has been wrong from the start.

[ ...

looks up ]

Aren't you angry?

[ don't you just want to go ape shit? ]

[tongshi]

[ his ears twitch with the question, and he looks back at him. ]

Yeah, I'm angry. It's why I'm here. And I'm going to keep being angry.

[hanaban]

[ punches a fist into his open palm ]

Angry angry?

[ like, beat-up-the-mayor angry? burn-the-city-to-the-ground angry? ]

[tongshi]

... rational thought angry, like I went into this not in a blind rage and we had a plan angry?

[ no, he's not going to beat up the mayor or burn the city to the ground, hanako! ]

[hanaban]

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What's it going to take to get you there? Another one of us dead? Five? Thirty?