I don't think so.

( which is probably the easiest admission of this sort of thing than he's gotten in a long time. )

I just- close my eyes and remember the vine around my neck. Or Pure Vanilla in his own blood.

... Dark Cacao left, too. He- he just, saw the state we were in, and- decided to go fight the forest or something. We could't stop him.

( her voice cracks with a sob at this point- )

I don't know what to do, Mizuki...