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[dreamofarcadia]

 [The Twitter Q&A got too long...again...so I needed to split it into a fourth post. Right now this just has the afterword, but I'll probably update this with other translations from the twitter, if I find other interesting tweets.]
[Here's part 1, part 2, and part 3.] 

As always, enjoy. 

 Keep in mind the afterword has spoilers for the game, so highlight to view. 

Atou: P.S...

 

Atou: 

 

1) Shinano: He's a friendly junior. He can do a lot of...shocking things, but he's a lot  more serious and a lot stronger than I thought he was. There are still some things he's kind of airheaded about, though, so as his senior I should keep covering for him.

2) Yanagi-san: She's a lady, but I didn't particularly need to 'protect' her or anything, other than during fights. Anyone would've been completely unable to continue in a place like that, but despite that, she continued to fight in her own way. And she won. There's a light burning in her.

3) Kurachi-san: I respect him from the bottom of my heart. In this day and age, people being older doesn't necessarily mean you can respect them. Of course, he can be stubborn, too, but it's because his unshakeable sense of justice and his principles are an important part of his identity. This is all I can really say about it, but I think that's why, even if he was corroded there, he didn't lose his sense of self.

4) Karen-chan: I'm glad she's safe. In a place like that, it wouldn't have been odd at all for her to cry the whole time, but she fought with us until the end. She's strong. I truly am happy we've managed to find a future that she's alive in. 

5) Riku-san: To be honest, I didn't really like him at first. In a place like that, acting aggressively towards other people isn't odd at all, but I'm sure even he was worried, scared, and shaking under the pressure of it all. What happened to his wife is really unfortunate and sad, but I want him to be able to live happily with Karen from now on. For her sake, too.

6) Kanou-san:

That white-haired four eyes. That selfish, crazy bastard who curses other people like he's trying to get in one last dig at them and then just dies...Well, I guess I can say as many bad things about him as I want, but...if remembering that criminal existed is a crime itself, then we'd gladly bear that sin. We survived, after all.

7) Aiba-kun: He saved me countless times. He really did. I feel pathetic for getting someone that much younger than me that worked up, though. He's a good kid, but that doesn't mean he has no weaknesses. He's trying to overcome his weaknesses and stand up for what he believes in as earnestly as he can, but he himself knows that there are also some times he has to give in. That's why we shouldn't be forcing him to be strong.

8) Jabuchi-san: I think it'd be too rude to call him clumsy. He was honest and serious, and while there were times he did things that weren't like that at all, if that's the path he chose, I couldn't do anything to stop him. But the fact that he was thinking about Yanagi-san until the end...How do I put this. I hope he can at least watch over her.

9) Enomoto: 

Well, she's...there's probably nothing I should really say here. It's just that, if she could've inherited that fragment from Hatsutori, then maybe--

Well, no. Even if a world where that's possible doesn't exist, I think I'm glad that she at least got to die happy. There's nothing else I can say.

10) Utsugi: I don't think anyone fully understood him in the end. Not even Hatsutori. 

That quiet "traitor" in the end wasn't blaming Hatsutori at all, though. If I had to say, he was---

No, I shouldn't say anything else. Hatsutori got what he wanted, in the end.

11)Hatsutori: He's someone I can't separate myself from. I understood some parts of what he was thinking, but there are other places where I just don't get him at all. Maybe, in the end, he just wasn't anything at all. I don't think you can really classify him any specific way, I think he just lived as whatever everyone around him told him he was. It would've been nice if he found some kind of answer in the end, though.

12) Mom: 

I know what happened now. And that's exactly why I can say that what she did was foolish and crazy. I loved her, as her child, and I still remember her as someone kind and beautiful. I'm thankful that she was my mother. But that's only because I've come to terms with what happened back then, now.

13)Rei: 

I don't know what I should've done to help him. But I regret how it turned out, as his older brother. The only thing I can do now is live for him, too.

14) Reiji: 

How do I put this...He's a huge idiot. I really don't get him at all. Why would you go so far for someone you don't even know? Is there something wrong with his head? All I can really tell him is that he's probably crazy too. 

...And I can't say this part to him, but I'm glad he saved me. He's not Rei, but he's my younger brother, too. There's no question about that. 

15) The old man: 

Let me just say I'd like to rip that braid of his off and strangle him with that tacky scarf of his. That's all.

...Well, I say that, but...

I can kind of guess how he felt in Italy, and what he was doing there. I don't think he was just relaxing every day, not thinking about anything else. He probably kept fighting on and on for all of those sixteen years. In a lot of ways. Maybe I'll find out more about what happened then in the future, but right now, it's too late to do anything about all of that. But if by some chance whatever happened then comes up again...I guess I've got no choice. I'll have to help him out. 

That's all.

Atou: Oh, I forgot to write about Otowa. 

Otowa: I know how you feel about me, so I don't particularly care if you write about it or not.

Atou: I'm not writing this for you, I'm writing this for people who have questions...

Otowa: I see.

Atou: Well, we're close friends. So close we can talk like this.

 

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