[ Okay, no screwing around with unrelated things this time, Bakugou doesn't want to be (as much of) an embarrassment with somebody else spectating... ]
Yeah, it's about those coworkers you mentioned before.
There were some other womens' names there too, if you're gonna say that there could be any random ass group of three people with names like that.
[ The statistical likeliness of it being "a coincidence" does kind of drop with numbers, right? ... He also didn't really think about the fact that they all sounded like feminine names until just now. ]
[ Damn, but he's getting kind of invested in being a huge snoop about the Conductor's life at this point!! Investigation what investigation he just wants the GOSSIP. ]
— Oh, hey, good catch. [ He was too busy being disappointed over here. ]
They're somewhat familiar, yes. They weren't attached to anyone I knew for very long, however, and those names aren't relevant to the current situation.
[ Well that's a little frustrating, but this is already more information than Jean had been hoping to get. He glances at Bakugou - he wants to ask if someone else had ever mentioned other students before, but now's not the time - before he continues. ]
[ They should've brought a piece of paper or something so they could write notes to each other... Bakugou does seem to have something he wants to say to Jean privately, though he's restraining himself. Barely. ]
I have a separate question. Did you know that list of names existed? Or I guess... were you the one who left it?
I found it while I was looking around. [ Not that his answer is suspiciously evasive or anything like that. He gives Bakugou a quick nod all the same. It was a good question, and tells him plenty about the Conductor's attention to detail. ]
You know, if one of these people was in this fucked-up situation before, I think that actually is kinda relevant to the current situation.
[ ... That complaint out of the way: ] Lemme guess, [ he assumes a very flat tone, which is apparently his Conductor imitation ] I didn't kill them all personally.
[ Keeping a straight face in the wake of Bakugou's 'impersonation' may be the hardest thing Jean has ever done, but somehow he manages.
It helps that he's pretty annoyed to have his question dodged like that. ] Like hell it's irrelevant. If you didn't know her for very long, that means she was either murdered or a murderer, right?
[Don't worry, at this rate Jean isn't ranking much higher on the agitation scale.
Although in fairness if he were really that annoyed he could always just hang up, so this is kind of another case of "Conductor, you do these things to yourself. You are the cause of your own suffering. You need to not."]
I did, yes. The girl in question had a very short run, for various reasons, though there are other possible reasons outside of "murderer or murdered" that that might be.
[ Even shorter than 6 days? Yeah, that is definitely ominous. ]
Wait a sec, I might just be missing something really fucking obvious, but doesn't that mean she left the exercise... but she didn't kill or get killed?
[ Oh shit, someone actually broke the rules enough to get killed.
... Jean glances at Bakugou again, but this time it's mostly because he can't help but notice that he's still alive. What the hell was this girl like to get herself into that sort of trouble? ]
[ HE SEES THAT LOOK AND KNOWS WHAT JEAN IS THINKING AND THAT IS RUDE. He follows the rules. In fact, he feels like it's pretty difficult to break the rules consistently... ]
You're the second; the initial rules were more or less the same, perhaps with some differences in wording here and there. Nothing to change the severity of what she did, however.
[ Bakugou has nothing to add here if only because he's giving Jean a look like "what the hell are you doing" combined with "aw yes gratuitous gossip about the Conductor, my fav"...
He's doing a good job investigating important things. ]
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Hey, Conductor. I've got a question for you.
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Yeah, it's about those coworkers you mentioned before.
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Ah, both of you, then...I won't stop you from asking, should you have questions, though as always, I don't guarantee that I'll answer everything.
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Was one of them named Rachel, by any chance? Or Hilda? Or Lisbeth? [ He could go on, but he starts with those for the time being. ]
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[ The statistical likeliness of it being "a coincidence" does kind of drop with numbers, right? ... He also didn't really think about the fact that they all sounded like feminine names until just now. ]
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None of my coworkers had names like that, no.
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— Oh, hey, good catch. [ He was too busy being disappointed over here. ]
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Were they Participants like we are?
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I have a separate question. Did you know that list of names existed? Or I guess... were you the one who left it?
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...As for the list, I didn't write any such thing, nor did I leave it anywhere. May I ask where you obtained it?
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Only one of them? What happened to the rest?
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[ ... That complaint out of the way: ] Lemme guess, [ he assumes a very flat tone, which is apparently his Conductor imitation ] I didn't kill them all personally.
[ Okay, he apparently wasn't done complaining. ]
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Again, all of this is irrelevant to the current situation; I fail to see what you think you're going to achieve with this line of questioning.
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It helps that he's pretty annoyed to have his question dodged like that. ] Like hell it's irrelevant. If you didn't know her for very long, that means she was either murdered or a murderer, right?
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... Anyway, so this isn't the first time this shitty trust-building exercise has happened. Did you oversee that one too?
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Although in fairness if he were really that annoyed he could always just hang up, so this is kind of another case of "Conductor, you do these things to yourself. You are the cause of your own suffering. You need to not."]
I did, yes. The girl in question had a very short run, for various reasons, though there are other possible reasons outside of "murderer or murdered" that that might be.
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So how many rounds of this shitty game have there been so far?
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Wait a sec, I might just be missing something really fucking obvious, but doesn't that mean she left the exercise... but she didn't kill or get killed?
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A bit of a shame, really. She was likewise an interesting person.
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... Jean glances at Bakugou again, but this time it's mostly because he can't help but notice that he's still alive. What the hell was this girl like to get herself into that sort of trouble? ]
Which round are we?
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... And they were the same rules as ours?
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Either way, while I didn't kill them all personally, she was certainly one that I did.
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The point is that yes, the rest of them died.
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[ ... Other than that, though, he doesn't have anything else to add. ]
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[And from the sound of it, that's going to be the end of it for today.]
Is there anything else...?
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Jean doesn't want to leave it just yet, however, so he blurts out one last question: ] Is it true you had a big family?
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He's doing a good job investigating important things. ]
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[Past tense, all of it.]