𝒢𝑜𝓁𝒹𝑒𝓃𝒷𝑒𝓇𝓎𝓁.

12. The Meaning of Freedom

" ɪꜱ ꜰʀᴇᴇᴅᴏᴍ ᴀɴʏᴛʜɪɴɢ ʙᴜᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ʀɪɢʜᴛ ᴛᴏ ʟɪᴠᴇ ᴀꜱ ᴡᴇ ᴡɪꜱʜ? ɴᴏᴛʜɪɴɢ ᴇʟꜱᴇ. "

- Epictetus

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---So you really did it. You ended the White Room.---

" Yeah." Yuki pauses for a moment, before continuing. " From the tone of your voice, it almost sounds like you had doubted me for a moment there, Shiro..."

--- Er....well, can you blame me? I thought you'd let your emotions get ahead of you and prolong their ' torturous ' period just a little more. Jut enough time for them to launch a strike against you.---

Yuki sighs, giving away her answer to that. There really was no blaming her former genmate in the scenario that she could've let that happen.

--- But I'm glad. You kept to your word, and you listened to my advice of ending it early. That man and his accomplices are in jail, and everyone that had been trapped in that place is free. Quite the happy ending, I'd say ---

Or so he says....but....

" That isn't what you're really thinking, is it, Shiro." Yuki knew better. The call went silent for a bit, she could imagine Shiro wearing an amused expression at the other side of the world right now.

--- Well....you're right. I've got a ton of things to say but firstly, I'm quite shocked that you brought in Kiyotaka's mother in the flesh on live television. It's fortunate I was able to see it this time around since I'm staying in the main city for the week, and it just so happened that the trial was still ongoing. But anyway, how did you get her on board in the first place? I didn't take her as someone who would risk something like that without an interesting exchange... ---

Yuki shared the same thoughts. The broadcast of the trial was a global controversy, with billions wanting to see how Japan would handle this alarming case of several human right violations, supported with a huge amount of substantial evidence from Yuki. The main prosecutor of this entire situation. And it doesn't take even half a brain to figure out that someone like Mika wouldn't have agreed to show her face in front of that many people, simply to confirm not just the validity of the case itself, but her own guilty association.

Mika wasn't the type of person to do that.....and yet...

" If I told you, you'd be just as suprised as I was." Yuki replied.

--- Suprise me. ---

" She only asked to see his grave. "