[ She doesn't push back to dismiss the suggestion - but rather, to communicate that it simply didn't occur to her to think about it more deeply. It was over. The killer had died, and Gen is really the only other person that knows about this, aside from Rem and Light, now that she thinks about it. What purpose would thinking about it to herself serve, other than to remind her of something terrible that had happened? ]
It was a year ago already. I didn't really have time to dwell on it much back then, either... with my parents and everything. And like I said, he's dead. So what would I think about? Almost dying, over and over again? No thanks.
[ What would be left to ponder over? It'd be different if she could think over getting her revenge, or seeing to it that justice was served to the perpetrator. But it's already solved, in her opinion... She props her cheek up on her hand, leaning her weight heavily into the armrest of the chair, seeming much more at ease than she had minutes previous. It seems most of the tension has, at least for now, ebbed away, so she feels fine letting her guard down a little more.
Besides, when she's not talking or thinking about the actual, literal moments of the attack— she's fine. As long as she doesn't think about it. Which has been her method of coping for everything that's happened in the past two years, a method that clearly has zero flaws in it. Furthermore, her own ignorance of how that experience had permanently changed her into the reckless person she is today keeps her from seeing the merit in what he's talking about. Misa holds out a splayed hand to him. ]
You, on the other hand... it's not settled like that. So it makes sense to think about it.
[ Did he regret what he'd done? Could he move on from it, without the possibility of a true closure? If what he says is true, and he hasn't thought about it the whole time they've been in Horos— she has to imagine many of the same types of questions could start swirling around in his head. ]
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[ She doesn't push back to dismiss the suggestion - but rather, to communicate that it simply didn't occur to her to think about it more deeply. It was over. The killer had died, and Gen is really the only other person that knows about this, aside from Rem and Light, now that she thinks about it. What purpose would thinking about it to herself serve, other than to remind her of something terrible that had happened? ]
It was a year ago already. I didn't really have time to dwell on it much back then, either... with my parents and everything. And like I said, he's dead. So what would I think about? Almost dying, over and over again? No thanks.
[ What would be left to ponder over? It'd be different if she could think over getting her revenge, or seeing to it that justice was served to the perpetrator. But it's already solved, in her opinion... She props her cheek up on her hand, leaning her weight heavily into the armrest of the chair, seeming much more at ease than she had minutes previous. It seems most of the tension has, at least for now, ebbed away, so she feels fine letting her guard down a little more.
Besides, when she's not talking or thinking about the actual, literal moments of the attack— she's fine. As long as she doesn't think about it. Which has been her method of coping for everything that's happened in the past two years, a method that clearly has zero flaws in it. Furthermore, her own ignorance of how that experience had permanently changed her into the reckless person she is today keeps her from seeing the merit in what he's talking about. Misa holds out a splayed hand to him. ]
You, on the other hand... it's not settled like that. So it makes sense to think about it.
[ Did he regret what he'd done? Could he move on from it, without the possibility of a true closure? If what he says is true, and he hasn't thought about it the whole time they've been in Horos— she has to imagine many of the same types of questions could start swirling around in his head. ]