[She would agree with his thoughts if he voiced them. She'd trusted the Chairman, too. Respected him, as someone who looked out for them, in a way few adults ever had in her life.

And then it'd all been a lie.]

He ordered Aigis to capture us, and brought us to the Observatory. He said he was going to sacrifice us to bring the Fall. We didn't know what that was yet, but he thought it was going to make him the ruler of the world, or something like that. Koromaru came, and Aigis managed to snap out of it, but before we could stop anything he and Mr. Kirijo.... killed each other.

[another deep breath. Then she continues in a steady voice.]

Things just went awry after that. Mitsuru-senpai was upset... It turned out Takaya and Jin hadn't died, either. Takaya was completely into what Ikutsuki had said, about the Fall. They broke Chidori-san out of the hospital and tried to get her to attack us. But in the end, Junpei brought her around. Takaya even shot him, but Chidori-san sacrificed herself to heal him.

[she sighs.] Strega disappeared again after that. None of us knew what to do. We couldn't stop the Dark Hour and we didn't have any ideas about the Fall Ikutsuki had talked about. So we just kept going to school.