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She nodded affirmatively: "That student is a girl, after being raped by someone … "Kill …"

"…" I could feel her self-reproach.

"If I hadn't been afraid that night, would it not have happened?"

I shook my head and couldn't answer her, because I was the one who should have blamed myself the most. If I could have had more than one Mind's Eye, I would have saved my life.

To distract her, I asked