The similarities and differences between the worlds they know is unusual, the marked similarities making the differences all the more stark. Yet having just admitted to killing so many people and harming many more, Mizu cannot find it within herself to care. She doesn't care, just as she didn't care before what the consequences of her actions were as long as she got Fowler. Her revenge was all that mattered.

It still is. It's why she's here. It matters most. Mizu needs it. Only once she's found and killed them all can she feel satisfaction.

Mizu sits, legs folded under her. "I didn't mean to, but I didn't care," Mizu says, "I didn't care about the consequences. Truly. You may have been lucky, but you care more about people than I do." That isn't hard. Everyone around her does. They care about others, but they've all found reasons not to care about her. Not protecting Akemi. Not protecting the shogun. Not protecting... whatever.

"I don't mean to do it again," Mizu adds. She is sorry those people are dead. "Killing anyone I don't intend to kill."