[They're content to leave Sayo's romantic entanglements alone, for now, but... the next part gets to them. Hardly call us birds of a feather... They aren't. They never have been. Chara has always been different from everyone around them, and they know that. Frisk shares a piece of them but even they can't understand what goes through Chara's head, Satoko knows a piece of it all but she's landed on a different path, a more fair one. Paul... well, Paul isn't the monster he thinks he is. Yet.
The idea of being severed from her story and given freedom to live her life the way she wants is freeing to Sayo, and maybe, distantly, they know it should be freeing to them too. They... can't bring themselves to call her a deluded fool for thinking such a thing, because she's probably correct. She's definitely correct.
But Chara isn't ready to let go. To admit that everything they did, everything they sacrificed was all for nothing, all for the amusement of some unknown voyeuristic entity that never even knew or cared about them. If they did...
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The idea of being severed from her story and given freedom to live her life the way she wants is freeing to Sayo, and maybe, distantly, they know it should be freeing to them too. They... can't bring themselves to call her a deluded fool for thinking such a thing, because she's probably correct. She's definitely correct.
But Chara isn't ready to let go. To admit that everything they did, everything they sacrificed was all for nothing, all for the amusement of some unknown voyeuristic entity that never even knew or cared about them. If they did...
Their expression remains unchanged.]