[ He enjoys making this so very, very hard. Without caring whether he could or couldn't see it, Mizuki rolls her eyes. ]

You know, I was. If only so I wouldn't have to keep listening to that stupid static, but you're making me reconsider.

[ She buries that part of her that actually wants to see him still alive. At this point, she won't be surprised if it's some kind of trick, but stranger things have happened here. The image of Tokiko, alive and well and decidedly not cut in two, putting in an offering to Those Who Were There, lives rent free in her mind. ]