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[grand_theft_moe]

[Park]

[In an out of the way corner of the park, Chizuko can be found putting a frame down at the base of a tree. Inside it is kanji that reads "Miyako Mikamo". Next to it she places a bowl of still steaming rice, with chopsticks embedded in it. She claps and bows to it, before kneeling. It's Mother's Day and she wants to say hi to her mother.]You

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[grand_theft_moe]

[She looks up from her work]

Hello, sensei. Beware of the tripline at the gate.

[grand_theft_moe]

[Chizuko shakes her head]

Today is mother's day. I was just remembering...

[grand_theft_moe]

[Chizuko accepts the contact, which says a lot. She's skittish.]

They died when I was ten. Cancer, they said. From the radiation.

[grand_theft_moe]

Some people benefit from it. As long as the masses are manipulated by them, it will continue. [She's starting to become more cynical. When she was with Him, she had faith in the common person...] And children will continue to lose parents.

[grand_theft_moe]

Thank you. I only wish she could be here...and so could Muto-sensei...and Skipper...Hans...Taka...Angie...[She knows if she continues to rattle off the names of the dead, she'll sink into angst. Better to change the subject.] Would you ever want to raise a child? The real way that is, not this false parenting the town forces on us.

[grand_theft_moe]

You'd make a great father.

[grand_theft_moe]

Someday you might meet someone you care for a lot.

[NotJuriNotJuriNotJuri she thinks.]

[grand_theft_moe]

I'm sorry, but I don't trust her.