[ It's a fair question, but for what it is worth, what Joel provided is more than adequate without getting into specifics. Mizuki's mouth hangs open in morbid awe, and she's quiet as she tries to imagine what a world like that would even be like. She can't know, not really, though she likes to think it's a world she narrowly avoided.

She really, really hopes they did, at any rate. ]

We were--

Well, it wasn't a fungus. I don't know. I don't really get the nitty gritty science of it. A virus, I guess. It made you crazy, too. Like... ramming your head into walls and jumping off cliffs.

We were trying to stop it. [ And he had the gall not to remember any of it. Mizuki trails off, however, already feeling strange, speaking about this, but it seems like something that's been weighing on her for a while since arriving. ]