[Oh, she was letting him learn stuff here too? She might regret that. He was half tempted to jokingly ask for her measurements…
Instead, he addressed her question first.]
No, I didn’t flunk! [Ok, Tsuchigomori would probably have said otherwise when looking at his grades…] unless you count death as a qualifier for being held back.
[Now, for what he really wanted to know…]
You were a part of the group that Crossed previously. [That wasn’t the question, merely something he had noted. Hanako had kept an eye on the River, and Mari hadn’t emerged from it this round, which meant she had to have been already here.] What, specifically, did you have to face during it?
CW: suggestive thought
Instead, he addressed her question first.]
No, I didn’t flunk! [Ok, Tsuchigomori would probably have said otherwise when looking at his grades…] unless you count death as a qualifier for being held back.
[Now, for what he really wanted to know…]
You were a part of the group that Crossed previously. [That wasn’t the question, merely something he had noted. Hanako had kept an eye on the River, and Mari hadn’t emerged from it this round, which meant she had to have been already here.] What, specifically, did you have to face during it?