Got to make the shareholders happy.

...Anyway. [ mentally traces this conversation back. ] I guess I wasn't really making much of a point beyond "this sucks".

Yeah, sometimes there's nothing else to really say... It sucks, but we're almost through it.

Worried about, uh, Kazuki and Kaworu, though. [ mordalion is there too but she hasn't talked to him and isn't going to lie about caring as much. ] Their team dropped to too few members.

Oh. Shit, I wasn't even thinking about that.

[ oh shit is also the emotion. ]

There wasn't an announcement about it this time, was there? That might be a good sign, if they're not bothering with the manufactured drama a second time. North never thought there was a real threat of death before anyway, so... hopefully they just dropped that plotline altogether.

We'll see. I don't really know what to believe or expect, but I guess it really barely matters either way.

Yeah. It'd still suck to die to something so stupidly arbitrary and unnecessary, though. Not going to be fun for them to have that threat hanging over their heads this weekend either.

Even if the hosts tell them not to stress about it, they're going to all day. It'll be a distraction.