Virus: 08/15/2028, 20:39  ♪ BGM: Pose the Question to this World ♫  Q: We pleaded our case to the world: 'it is only a natural right to not want others reading your mind'. That was what he told Ukita. At the time, Ukita took little notice about that tidbit-- but in hindsight, he found it concerning.  (It appears Q was operating as a citizen group back in the day... which means the name Q was known to the world back then? So the organization called ''Q'' already existed when the Great Rokumei City Arson occurred...?)Ukita had been 19 at the time, but he'd never heard of any group or organization with that name.   --he got that answer. What does that mean...?Sonezaki: We called ourselves by a different name back then. It was only long after the Great Rokumei City Arson that we started calling ourselves 'Q'. As I told you earlier, we were arrested under false pretenses after the Great Rokumei City Arson happened. We were sentenced unnaturally quickly as well. We then spent three years in prison. By the time we were released and saw the world outside the walls of that prison for the first time in years, society had undergone a massive change...  Sonezaki: All for the crime of speaking what was on our minds. ...Back then... you truly were guiltless, weren't you?Sonezaki: That's right. Thus we revived our organization once again to plead our innocence. ...But Rokumei City's statesmen were far more cunning than we'd imagined. Once they learned of the revival of our organization, they just tried to use us as part of their scheme to maintain public order.  What!? Why would they do that!?Sonezaki: It made it easier for them to maintain public order that way, that's why. The statesmen branded us with the name of 'Q'-- in other words 'those of questionable origin' and framed us up as a fictional terrorist organization. That lie was taken by society to be the truth. The story went that 'there's a Japanese organization that hates Communicators'. 'They're the worst kind of terrorists there are: the ones who caused the Great Rokumei City Arson.' 'The Communicators are unfortunate victims. But they can live in peace if they come to government designated top-secret cities.' ...Everyone just soaked up those lies like a sponge. In other words, we were made a scapegoat all in the name of public order. ...!Sonezaki: Now do you understand? This is how our organization came to be. If our enemies branded us as terrorists, we would turn that falsehood into reality... That is the source of our desire for revenge. Those words made Ukita shudder in fear. ♪ BGM: Ominous Ambience ♫ (I can understand why he feels that way, but still...!)Regardless of the reasons behind Q and Ukita's methods, they were still acts of terrorism at the end of the day. Even if their opinions fell on deaf ears otherwise, resorting to acts of destruction was far too removed from the rules of society. But the ''society'' that Q hated so much-- in other words, ''Rokumei City''-- had also fallen far off the beaten track from those rules. (Just how long... will this chain of malice continue?) He felt something was wrong with Q's opinion. That said, he didn't know who was in the right. (No... maybe nobody is in the right here...!)--He suddenly remembered a passage from a book he had read as a child. ''He who looks upon everyone as monsters soon becomes the real monster himself.' (Then who... is the monster? A? Q? The Rokumei City government...? Or...!?)
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