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田中 功次 | Tanaka Koji ([personal profile] misaimed) wrote in [community profile] expiationlogs 2024-11-21 02:45 am (UTC)

At the mention of harsh sentencing and what it might usually require, Tanaka's expression tightens, like someone pained by a phantom limb. He's been a murderer. But only after he was given a harsher sentence than this just for being alive. Even if he is back under government control and this is all a hallucination or simulation, the fact that it's been hours and he hasn't died at all shows more mercy than he was ever given before he had blood on his hands.

He lets out a bitter huff of breath, and the expression passes. He's just so tired. So tired of this.

He should probably give a fake name. He has a few picked out. But what's the point when his real name is right there on this damn piece of paper? And every government employee in Japan certainly knows it.

"Tanaka." He pauses, but the man had been polite enough to give his full name, so it's only right to return the gesture. "Kouji Tanaka."

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