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Guess we'll find out.

Mmm . . .

Any questions for today?

[blinks]

Ah . . . well.

I had questions about Mirror, but . . . Jinx answered most of them.

Oh! Well, good on him. ...how is he doing?ar

. . . [shrugs]

He's a hard person to read sometimes.

He's her pet.

. . . he told me that she fixed him.

[SNORTS]

. . . the way he is now . . . was he like that before he broke?

I didn't know him really, before then. We started talking mostly after ah. The big Trickster game where King sent Trickster home. When I was ah. Leaking words.

Only knew him in passing before then. My team was kind of a handful at times back then. One member refused to leave the dorm except for games.

. . . leaking words and a strange teammate. Got it.

Why doesn't he avoid her?

I got four years worth of memory at once. Kinda made me crazy.

Ah...well. I can't answer for him. But I know my own reasons.

Turning your back to a threat feels as unsafe as facing it sometimes. It's showing fear, too. And he doesn't like to show how he feels. He likes to be contrary.

And ah.

Vulpecula's... I don't think he gets a lot of attention like I do on Cepheus or you do on Monoceros. I think in a way. He'll take anything he can get.

Don't tell him I said that last thing. Don't even bring it up at all.

. . . ah. That would do it, wouldn't it.

[. . . nods] I won't. But . . . alright, I can understand facing a fear. But from what I can remember of the other night . . . isn't standing there talking to her, dealing with what she's saying giving her what she wants?

She treated him as a pet. She wasn't cruel to him. She had other specimens to play with.

And he doesn't want that. That's why he panics when she talks to you.

He doesn't want me making Jinx's mistake.

Being MPD again...

That means he's really serious about it. If that person is saying it to you.

He thinks people involved with him are at the most risk. That's why he's yelling at you and grabbing my arm in those situations.

MPD?

[nods, then tilts his head thoughtfully] I know. But . . .

The M stands for Multiple. Can you figure out the rest?

. . . not what the letters stand for, but I think I know what it means.

And that is?

[holds up three fingers]

"Jinx", "Kaito", and the third one I don't have a name for.

To me the third is named the same as the second when written. But that won't help you at all, as you don't write like me.

Multiple Personality Disorder.

Mirror calls them Pieces. He has three pieces, that's right. He can switch them around at any time.

I have more, which is part of why he worries for me. But I'm not like him. I don't use pieces over again. I just keep making new ones.

The same as the second . . . ? [shakes his head] That doesn't help, no. I was thinking of coming up with my own name for him.

. . . asking "why" for either of you would be a little too personal, wouldn't it.

Kaito certainly won't answer!

I'll oblige you a little, since you're informing me. That makes it a fair trade.

As I travel for history, for recording events, I change my name from location to location. Sometimes the way I act, to get what I need. Because my mission more than anything else has always been to learn.

Red is my 50th name. ...and I rather like it, too!