[She looks up at him without revealing anything as he speaks, though she feels vulnerable and does not much care for it, not with as hard as she's worked.

But what is, is, right? So finally, when he's done, she answers, sighing as she begins.]

It's... not an act, exactly. I'm....

[She smiles finally, faintly, a touch bitterly.]

I told the truth, on Sunday, mostly, but...

They killed me, then. Sort of. I... I was the girl who died in the incinerator. And it... it's, um....

I get fevers now. Because I'm burning. Or I burned. or I will.

[Another, soft, sigh.]

Cradle Pharmaceutical CEO, Gentarou Hongou, Nagisa Nijisaki, his right-hand man, Teruaki Kubota, the scientist who created the technology, and Kagechika Musashidou, their financial backer.

Hongou headed the project. He's the one who dragged me back into the incinerator, when I got out. Then turned it on.