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They kept walking in silence for a while before Utena shook her head vehemently. "No. No, there's no way you could have! No one, no matter what they've done, deserves to be treated like the Rose Bride!" she insisted, leading Himemiya more quickly now. "People are people, not objects. They don't stop being human just because someone says so."
She gave the girl's hand a squeeze as they moved down the hall. "Or because they've done something bad."