Mole Check-in

[transmittable]

Late Wednesday night, something strange and unprecedented happens: Sakura gets a message on her tablet.

good evening committed. we have a proposition for you.

during our observation of the exercise, we've come to see you could be an incredible asset to us. you know how to talk to others and observe. additionally, you have something here most others don't, and that's a person on the inside who you would like to keep specially safe. we are of course talking about rin tohsaka. the anxiety of having your own family in this situation must be unbearable. i can understand. that's why we're offering you, in exchange for a service, protection for her.

though we're able to observe and monitor, there are a lot of you, and it gets difficult at times. we would like you to, in exchange for this special incentive, report to us about the other patients actions. if someone's talking about something that could disrupt the exercise, or if someone's acting noticeably off, let us know. give us a rundown of meetings, if you all choose to have more. that's incredibly important.

we may ask you do to something for us, every so often, but this is mostly it. just information.

what do you say? think it over, as you'll have one chance to accept, and if you do we promise your sister to be protected. you're a smart and cunning girl. we believe you'll make the right decision.

- p.p. the transmitter
the risen

Comments

[transmittable]

yeah.

[imaginex]

Then please don't give up hope. If you can help us, I'm sure there's a way to help you as well. We just need to think of it first.

[transmittable]

please don't offer to help me. it doesn't end well when someone in your position tries to help someone in mine.

i appreciate it, sakura. but i don't know how plausible that ending is.

[imaginex]

[A very long pause]



I understand. Really I do. I also have something in my body I can't really control. And any time I can be made to hurt someone if my grandfather wishes it. My body has never been mine.

But someone I care about has already gotten himself hurt trying to save me. I don't want him to, he deserves better, but

[Another pause here]

I want to be like him. Even if I can't help, I can at least hope for you to go home. You deserve that, too.

[transmittable]

you really believe that? after all i've put you through?

[imaginex]

It's not just me. Everyone has said nothing but good things about you. Ryoji-san cares for you, too, so. We all want to see you escape.

[transmittable]

[ A pause. ]

you all really are too good for me.

[imaginex]

No. I'm very good at being nice to others, even when I try.

So if I am good to anyone, it just means they deserve it.

[transmittable]

you wouldn't say that if you knew everything i can't tell you.

[imaginex]

[A pause, as if Sakura realizes she can't deny that.]

Well that's what forgiveness is for.

[transmittable]

i guess.

i'm still saying, don't try and help me. it's for your own good.

[imaginex]

My future is already set, Transmitter-san. That's why I offered to help.

I have no interest in going back home.

[As of now, she doubts she can]

[transmittable]

even though you think it can't get worse, it may. believe me.

[imaginex]

I know. That's why there's courage in hoping for something better.

[A pause]

But as I said, that's not how I really am. I'm just copying others to feel better.

You and I think too similarly.

[transmittable]

do as others would want you to do, right?

we do. i really am sorry they chose you for this.