~ Sunday 10:20 ~
"Chocolate, chocolate with coffee to stay awake"
Kizuna sings for the last time before going serious, she sits on the other side of the table after giving Sato a normal, hot coffee, and she waits for Sato to taste to start.
"I won't lie, it's not my style, I only talked with people, about their problems, on the internet, since it's easier for everyone to open themselves, I probably was mean, I beg your pardon for everything bad I did"
"You didn't do anything bad"
"Well, it's not like we could do something about it, but we surely can do something about you, how do you feel?"
"I'm fine"
"This is a good start, when I said about burnout, tell me, I was correct?"
"... Yes"
"Sato, when I visited you for the first time, you locked yourself in your room, can you tell me why you did that?"
"I... I can't"
"Ok, we don't need to rush, tell me your hobbies"
"My... Hobbies?"
"Yep, what do you like to do in your free time?"
"..."
[ I... Paint, the study can count as a hobby? Wait, what is a hobby? ]
"You seem conflicted, you can avoid telling me if you don't feel like telling"
"No, it's just... What is a hobby?"
"It's something you enjoy doing when you could do something else, gaming, watching some specific movies or content, studying a specific thing as well"
"I like studying"
"What do you study?"
"... Maths"
"That's nice, what else?"
"I... Don't know"
"Hm... What do you dislike doing?"
"What kind of question is that?"
"Everyone has something or someone, that just feels bad, and you can't do much about it, like eating vegetables, or I don't know, popular people"
"Vegetables?"
"So you have no one you dislike?"
"?"
"Yep, any vegetable, I learned how to enjoy things, when I was a little kitsune- Kizuna, I didn't like to eat any complicated food, because I wanted to keep playing instead"
"I see, I don't have anything I dislike eating"
"Hm... What about a favorite food, have one?"
"Uh... Anything healthy?"
"Same taste as me, if it's healthy and looks good, it's my favorite, next... Favorite movie?"
"I don't know... Any"
"Oh, I think we found something, what about your friends, are you in touch with them?"
"... No"
"No entertainment, in your life until now, so you had a harsh childhood, didn't you have an interest? Or someone didn't let you?"
"I..."
"That can explain your burnout, I see now, you've been grinding since a kid, barely had any friends as well, and then you got in jail, it's just a possibility, but you were framed, didn't you?"
"Framed?"
"Why would someone like you be thrown in jail? You probably have some pride, it's really out of character you do that, by the little I know you are a good person, I barely know about our police, but most of the people fear justice here, so you were framed"
"What are you trying to do?"
"To understand you, since you have no strength to tell me, no that's not the right way to say, I don't want to let you just go"
"Why?"
"I've said before, do we need a reason to help others? That's what most annoy me on humanity, they only will help, they only will change, when the problems smash their door and force them outside, they will ignore everything outside their daily life, almost no one reacts when someone needs help, even an animal, oh I'm going out of topic"
[ Admirable, but something is off here, why me? I don't deserve that, so many other people need help ]
"It seems you are good today, doesn't bother you, I dig into your life?"
"I... Don't know how to respond"
"Expected, well you don't need to tell me why you had to endure that, but I just remembered something, I saw before the amount of money you had, some 20 thousand ienes"
"Did you!?"
"Don't take me wrong, you were displaying when you were drunk, and also when we were looking for an agency to rent your apartment, seems like I was right, let me guess, you overworked in your free time as well?"
"..."
"Don't know how to answer? I will take it as a yes, the little I know tells me that you also negligence the physiological help they give as well, you can call me Sherlock homes now"
[ What in the world, did she just, guest everything? Is she spying on me? How? Am I being-
"Do you want to ask something?"
"How!?"
"90℅ of the time I don't know what the fuck am I doing, but if it works, who am I to complain? It's very easy, you just need to get some info, there are a few tricks for you to know everything about a person, interested?"
"Uh... Yes?"
"That one may help you, how to always know when someone is lying to you, basically a lier needs to create an entire story of what happened, and what didn't happen, however, they will mostly have lots of plot holes, so you need to exploit that creating more lies, for example, what would be your name if you weren't Akira?"
"I don't know, Keiko?"
"Let's make a role play, you will be Keiko, and you came home late, you were hanging out with your friends instead to prepare to exam"
"Ok?"
Kizuna lays back, she crosses her arms, closes her face, and stays tense, she makes sure to not look extremely serious, to not scare Akira's poor soul.
"Were you in the library as well?"
"Yes I was it"
"I was going to take a look at the near family mart and also decided to take you home, but I didn't see you?"
"I... Was"
"Behind the bookshelf? I saw someone similar, I asked a woman to let you know I was there, did she say it?"
"Yes she said it"
"Oh did you receive my request as well? Or did she forget?"
"Uh..."
Kizuna backs to her more excited behavior but in a controlled manner, more forward, hands-free to nonsense signals, with lively eyes and a relaxed expression.
"We would keep going that way, what happens here is, a lier already thought about the story, but not every single detail, so instead of asking the obvious, you ask outside the bubble, and you create new lies as well, you will eventually notice a pattern, usually more time to answer, or a better choice of words, the list goes, you can also keep asking the same history with irrelevant things as well, from time to time, eventually they will start to forget details and change things, the difference of the usual behavior to the new is what you need to pay attention"
"How do you know all that?"
"Internet, but I think this is a little off-topic again, tell me something about you"
"Something like?"
"Anything, really"
[ Why my mind got all blank, what I should say? My name, age? Something about me, but what? Something I like? Something I hate? Uh... ]
"Let's change the question, can you tell me where you worked?"
"I worked mostly at convenience stores, half time"
"Hooray, you told me something"
"Uh... What?"
"You barely talk about yourself, so hooray, I knew I could count on you, how is it to work at a convenience store?"
"Normal?"
"Oh common, tell me details, I want details"
"There are not many details, I don't remember having any issues with people, I worked after school"
"So I was right, after all, no point hiding yourself from me, you heard? Tell me anything, even the little details"
Akira proceeds to answer all the questions, such as uniforms, co-workers, products, and even how the air is.
~ Sunday 12:00 ~
"Hm... I feel like I cream, want some?"
"No than-
"I will catch for ya"
Kizuna waves to the fridge, she has a plan in mind, first, she takes a time to drink water and has sure that Akira is distracted enough, she comes closer from behind the sofa, and she passes the cold ice cream on her neck.
"Ouch!?"
"There is it, did you find anything interesting to watch?"
"No, I didn't find anything"
"Did I already tell you that you look more lively now?"
"I don't think so"
"No more stutter as well, hooray!"
"What does hooray mean?"
"Commemoration, let's commemorate eating ice cream, this time I won't let you alone to pass out, let's watch Death Note, I'm curious to know your position about justice"
"My position?"
"You will understand after you watch it"