[ It's funny, really – for all the time they spent discussing cognitive psience back in the true reality, her name never came up once, and here it is now. That first spectre that began haunting him so early on in Somnius, while his body was still torn to shreds from the kaiju in that ruined city and he and Akechi circled once another like sharks.
She was quite the prominent researcher in that field, wasn't she? It's a shame about what happened to her.
And then again, spoken under the soothing hum of lo-fi back when his real self was still in hiding from almost everyone, but Akechi had put together just enough pieces of his puzzle to know that Maruki was both dangerous and endangered.
Maruki has learned since exactly how odd it was. Exactly who was on the other end of a gun in the shadows of a cognitive world.
I wanted to steal her research - doesn't that sound familiar?
Still, though– the honest answer to Akira's question is a shake of his head as his mouth turns down. ]
I knew of Isshiki-san, but I never met her. If only I'd been so lucky. To say I admire her work would be a huge understatement.
[ Foundational, aspirational. His own budding career never would have had the springboard it did without her.
One day, people may look back on a time before cognitive psience was the norm, unable to comprehend a common topic for them being so new to us, and wonder why society couldn't appreciate the likes of Wakaba Isshiki and Maruki Takuto.
In hindsight, that feels more like a threat than genuine praise.
His stomach turns, and he moves to increase the heat on the kotatsu. ]
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She was quite the prominent researcher in that field, wasn't she? It's a shame about what happened to her.
And then again, spoken under the soothing hum of lo-fi back when his real self was still in hiding from almost everyone, but Akechi had put together just enough pieces of his puzzle to know that Maruki was both dangerous and endangered.
Don't you find Wakaba Isshiki's death odd?
Maruki has learned since exactly how odd it was. Exactly who was on the other end of a gun in the shadows of a cognitive world.
I wanted to steal her research - doesn't that sound familiar?
Still, though– the honest answer to Akira's question is a shake of his head as his mouth turns down. ]
I knew of Isshiki-san, but I never met her. If only I'd been so lucky. To say I admire her work would be a huge understatement.
[ Foundational, aspirational. His own budding career never would have had the springboard it did without her.
One day, people may look back on a time before cognitive psience was the norm, unable to comprehend a common topic for them being so new to us, and wonder why society couldn't appreciate the likes of Wakaba Isshiki and Maruki Takuto.
In hindsight, that feels more like a threat than genuine praise.
His stomach turns, and he moves to increase the heat on the kotatsu. ]
I take it you're familiar with her too?