“That’s good. Alright, enough for today. Do you want to play boardgames? We could ask your sisters to join.”

Soetsu: Yeah! If Kaede wants to play though, we don’t wanna play the one with the loud buzzer, she doesn’t like that game.

“Oh no, I’m so confused!” No matter how much he wants to, he just can’t put any emotion into the sentence. Nobody cares about their number. “I will have to tell them a mysterious organization is after us, but if we don’t know how many people… What a disastrous situation. Truly frightening. And we’re not ‘murderers’, and even less ‘merry’.”

So taking the life of another human being, no matter how vile they are, doesn’t count as murder?

Oh, everything was going fine, very nice, very cosy… until he started wanting to facepalm really really hard. “You need to divide the 3 too!”

Soetsu: Oh, right… that’s dumb, but I’ll do it anyway I guess… so I get twenty five and three over eight, which is… point three seven!

Yamato tries to keep his entire body from seizing on the spot. They say there are three reponses possible to danger, fight, flight or freeze, and freezing would be the worst of them all. An immediate proof of guilt.

Does this… kid even need one? Either he’s really sure of himself or he’s bluffing. He doesn’t have the time to think about the best option, so his body acts on its own:

“Oh.”

Perhaps his best move is not to tell too much…?

“So… there are actually two of you.”

Or are there? Maybe I just said that to throw you off… to give you some false info to take back to whoever runs your merry little gang of murderers.

“Which means you only need to take care of the 43 that remains when you remove 160 from 203. Then you can apply what we just did before.”

*Soetsu does some thinking, and a bit of scribbling* That’s five with an extra three! So the answer is twenty five with an extra three!