Maybe some of that sentiment was genuine, even in the end? Is that what you're thinking?

[She watches the pixels on the screen go through their repetitive and bloody motions. It's hard not to think that maybe, written in a different story, Mizuki would feel a different way. Control of the narrative might have been in someone else's hands.]

It was finished in time. Finding her guilty protected the rest of us from reprisal. Next time, just what is it that you intend to do?