That final word could be one of a million, there is so much between them. But only a few very specific words that define it precisely. He'll mentally put something positive in there.
Togusa again gestures to the chairs, and he moves to sit down, himself. Sometimes these have hit Mariko hard, as hard as they do Tatsuo, at times. While sometimes the Other memories can bleed into Togusa's mind so easily it takes him time to know that they are not truly his own.
He reaches for one of a hundred scraps of paper that are sitting on his desk. "It's a case that the two of them, and their whole team, were on. His name is The Laughing Man." And he draws over the paper, the sketch that he has done, so clearly, of the symbol, with the quote around it.
"The very first item I got from Retrospec was a copy of Catcher in the Rye, and it had that quote highlighted, re-written in English. Along with a few others, but that was clearly the thing most important to the other Togusa. The book falls open right to that page." Mariko might be able to make out the blue book sitting on his desk.
"He was obsessing over it." He pauses on that sentence, and finishes it with a meaningful look, instead. It's far too obvious. Which means the same behavior has bled into Togusa's own tendency to obsess, to dig and dig when he finds something. Because as afraid of this other world as he is, he wants to know the full truth behind it.
"I couldn't understand why this was so high on his radar until this started." He waves a hand in front of his face. "Seeing that logo instead of people's faces. It's something so simple, that he just doesn't know the identity of this man."
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Re: 2/10 - Action [Togusa's Office]
Date: 2019-02-24 08:33 pm (UTC)Togusa again gestures to the chairs, and he moves to sit down, himself. Sometimes these have hit Mariko hard, as hard as they do Tatsuo, at times. While sometimes the Other memories can bleed into Togusa's mind so easily it takes him time to know that they are not truly his own.
He reaches for one of a hundred scraps of paper that are sitting on his desk. "It's a case that the two of them, and their whole team, were on. His name is The Laughing Man." And he draws over the paper, the sketch that he has done, so clearly, of the symbol, with the quote around it.
"The very first item I got from Retrospec was a copy of Catcher in the Rye, and it had that quote highlighted, re-written in English. Along with a few others, but that was clearly the thing most important to the other Togusa. The book falls open right to that page." Mariko might be able to make out the blue book sitting on his desk.
"He was obsessing over it." He pauses on that sentence, and finishes it with a meaningful look, instead. It's far too obvious. Which means the same behavior has bled into Togusa's own tendency to obsess, to dig and dig when he finds something. Because as afraid of this other world as he is, he wants to know the full truth behind it.
"I couldn't understand why this was so high on his radar until this started." He waves a hand in front of his face. "Seeing that logo instead of people's faces. It's something so simple, that he just doesn't know the identity of this man."