Put your disk down, Rei.

[Yuume doesn't even look away from Alexis as she says that- she still doesn't even know the blonde's name, now that she thinks of it actually.

But this rings too familiar, too dark, for her to be phased entirely.

Outwardly, at least.

Saaaah, she remembers proclaiming on that broken arena only two years ago, I AM the 'MONSTER'!]

It's easy, isn't it? To put on the face of a villain. A villain is to be hated, so when you are hated beneath that mask, it can be as deserved.

It doesn't 'hurt' as much, if it's 'supposed' to be, does it?