[How unfortunate. Just one measly question. Matoba's eye lids as he gazes out over the ringtoss board, a quiet tsk of pity. But he shouldn't look the gift horse in the mouth, after all.]
[(He never said he wouldn't try to ask anything after this, but he's sure he won't be able to needle anything out, either... Too bad.)]
[His digging for information about this game, about all of the "coincidences" and "bugs" that have been mounting the last few weeks, slowly becoming too apparent for players to ignore: if Hien was really going to give an answer, it wasn't going to be from some pointblank question.]
[So that's pointless.]
[But what's really interesting, what Matoba thinks he discovered by poking the sleeping bear in the first place, is it probably isn't whatever Hien might know about the backdrop of this game. It's whatever his relationship is to it. His single-minded stubbornness towards whatever it is he's looking for while observing them, clinically, the little lab rats gathered here for testing.]
[It's not a bad thing, well-applied. Single-mindedness. In the right hands.]
[Eye drawing back up from the lights and flashy prizes, Matoba's smile betrays no particular amount of interest, like usual.]
By working here, on this project.... Are you trying to protect something, Hien-kun?
[Because it's those who have something to protect, some selfless purpose driving them- those are the ones that are truly dangerous. Useful. And maybe, reliable.]
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[(He never said he wouldn't try to ask anything after this, but he's sure he won't be able to needle anything out, either... Too bad.)]
[His digging for information about this game, about all of the "coincidences" and "bugs" that have been mounting the last few weeks, slowly becoming too apparent for players to ignore: if Hien was really going to give an answer, it wasn't going to be from some pointblank question.]
[So that's pointless.]
[But what's really interesting, what Matoba thinks he discovered by poking the sleeping bear in the first place, is it probably isn't whatever Hien might know about the backdrop of this game. It's whatever his relationship is to it. His single-minded stubbornness towards whatever it is he's looking for while observing them, clinically, the little lab rats gathered here for testing.]
[It's not a bad thing, well-applied. Single-mindedness. In the right hands.]
[Eye drawing back up from the lights and flashy prizes, Matoba's smile betrays no particular amount of interest, like usual.]
By working here, on this project.... Are you trying to protect something, Hien-kun?
[Because it's those who have something to protect, some selfless purpose driving them- those are the ones that are truly dangerous. Useful. And maybe, reliable.]