[Mikan yelps and jerks her hand back at the slap, rubbing at her wrist as the music starts up. She sniffles, eyes tearing up--she thought she was doing so well!! But Germany's response makes her cringe and she wrings her hands together anxiously.
... there's no way you had a direct hand in it...!
Mikan's eyes dart away and her laughter is high and nervous.] W-well no, but... But it's sort of everyone's fault... Everyone let it get that bad... [That's not exactly a lie, at least.]
But it was just... Pollution got deadly. there was uncontrolled, meaningless chaos, violence, and death. The entire world dissolved into anarchy... It was a world-wide war, but it wasn't for... For politics, or religion, or land... It was just-- War. For the sake of war.
[She looks up, expression guilty and anxious, though her voice is trying to be reassuring] Before I was came here, i-it was getting better, though! I think, um, I think it was down to only 40 murders a month now? A-at least in Japan...
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... there's no way you had a direct hand in it...!
Mikan's eyes dart away and her laughter is high and nervous.] W-well no, but... But it's sort of everyone's fault... Everyone let it get that bad... [That's not exactly a lie, at least.]
But it was just... Pollution got deadly. there was uncontrolled, meaningless chaos, violence, and death. The entire world dissolved into anarchy... It was a world-wide war, but it wasn't for... For politics, or religion, or land... It was just-- War. For the sake of war.
[She looks up, expression guilty and anxious, though her voice is trying to be reassuring] Before I was came here, i-it was getting better, though! I think, um, I think it was down to only 40 murders a month now? A-at least in Japan...
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