Yeah, considering you didn't have a role or a defender friend and all I'm glad we chose her now, but doing it to keep Naegi-kun from throwing a tantrum wasn't so good a reason, you know what I mean?
[Holden thinks about this with a muted, hard sound; his hunting cap casts shadows on his face. Then he speaks with a recitational tone--]
"There will be times it is in the interests of the hunters at a whole to sacrifice your life. The others might be willing to do this, but if you do, you won't get the prize."
[A dismissive grunt.] That was at the start of my journal. Back then, we didn't think like that, we did the math and - we thought that if we played well we wouldn't have to kill anyone we knew. That's why Sunderland and Winchester dropped off the face of the earth so early, wouldn't diminish prey's morale as Madoka or someone like her... [After all, look at what people think of Holden for his treatment of Sayaka.] Part of it with the nations was that they had this idea they could be a block, that they'd try to just make it out with any wolf nations instead of try to win. Critter put a stop to that with pointing out that was cheating, though. --and do you remember Tony Stark? He and Ms. Carter were trying to protect the people who came with them, too, they're just luckier that those people ended up not being threats at all.
Only person I protected was Beat. So I kinda lied to him at the trial when I said I wasn't... but it was a white lie. See, I came here alone, and he was a boy my own age who seemed to like me, and I liked him, and he wasn't much of a threat either, so I thought, you know what, it'll be good to not kill him for now, there's no good reason, he can wait until we outnumber everybody. But it was a strategic thing, I wasn't going to try to keep us from trying to kill him if he had turned out to be the caregiver or something. [UNCONSCIOUSLY GLANCING BORDERLINE GLARING IN ENGLAND'S DIRECTION...]
Being so reasonable on my part is what got Akane poisoned, incidentally, but what can you do about that now.
I got kind of off track there, didn't I? My point is that Naegi put Owie, Mondo, Kirigiri, Touko, and Sayaka on the list.
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[Holden thinks about this with a muted, hard sound; his hunting cap casts shadows on his face. Then he speaks with a recitational tone--]
"There will be times it is in the interests of the hunters at a whole to sacrifice your life. The others might be willing to do this, but if you do, you won't get the prize."
[A dismissive grunt.] That was at the start of my journal. Back then, we didn't think like that, we did the math and - we thought that if we played well we wouldn't have to kill anyone we knew. That's why Sunderland and Winchester dropped off the face of the earth so early, wouldn't diminish prey's morale as Madoka or someone like her... [After all, look at what people think of Holden for his treatment of Sayaka.] Part of it with the nations was that they had this idea they could be a block, that they'd try to just make it out with any wolf nations instead of try to win. Critter put a stop to that with pointing out that was cheating, though. --and do you remember Tony Stark? He and Ms. Carter were trying to protect the people who came with them, too, they're just luckier that those people ended up not being threats at all.
Only person I protected was Beat. So I kinda lied to him at the trial when I said I wasn't... but it was a white lie. See, I came here alone, and he was a boy my own age who seemed to like me, and I liked him, and he wasn't much of a threat either, so I thought, you know what, it'll be good to not kill him for now, there's no good reason, he can wait until we outnumber everybody. But it was a strategic thing, I wasn't going to try to keep us from trying to kill him if he had turned out to be the caregiver or something. [UNCONSCIOUSLY GLANCING BORDERLINE GLARING IN ENGLAND'S DIRECTION...]
Being so reasonable on my part is what got Akane poisoned, incidentally, but what can you do about that now.
I got kind of off track there, didn't I? My point is that Naegi put Owie, Mondo, Kirigiri, Touko, and Sayaka on the list.