"It's Maruki, isn't it... oh no," she sighed again, rubbing the back of her neck. "I've been trying to keep in touch with him, thinking - maybe he needs a friend to keep him grounded, help him come to his own conclusions instead of being threatened into changing his mind on things. But this is... going to make that a lot harder."
Damn.
"A friend can help someone come down off of their ideological high, but they could also feed into it pretty badly... and Zenkichi attacked her, so since she's a girl, she probably ran right to the one person who seems safest."
Wolf.........
"Okay. It might get worse before it gets better, but, maybe we can make this work in the long term? I'll keep talking to Maruki like I had been and ask Zenkichi to just-- cool it. On Ichinose. If we make sure enough people are aware of Ichinose's whole deal, then no one should get suckered in by her either."
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"It's Maruki, isn't it... oh no," she sighed again, rubbing the back of her neck. "I've been trying to keep in touch with him, thinking - maybe he needs a friend to keep him grounded, help him come to his own conclusions instead of being threatened into changing his mind on things. But this is... going to make that a lot harder."
Damn.
"A friend can help someone come down off of their ideological high, but they could also feed into it pretty badly... and Zenkichi attacked her, so since she's a girl, she probably ran right to the one person who seems safest."
Wolf.........
"Okay. It might get worse before it gets better, but, maybe we can make this work in the long term? I'll keep talking to Maruki like I had been and ask Zenkichi to just-- cool it. On Ichinose. If we make sure enough people are aware of Ichinose's whole deal, then no one should get suckered in by her either."