It's a review of the Balloon Game. There's a similar theme of despair and certainty the other units will kill them on the part of the writer. It goes about how you'd expect, with BARiTONES playing hard most of the way through. But at the end, the writer notes that she balked at playing more than one balloon. She lied to Absinthe regarding the reasons. Sure, to a degree, it would probably hurt BARiTONES' chances in future games if people thought they needlessly caused carnage.
But the truth was that playing more than one balloon meant choosing a team that she didn't want to play against (Future is Now, Avante, Lilis). That, combined with her discomfort with causing the deaths of others (something she would never openly admit), caused her to balk. They compromise with two balloons, and of the three, Kohime chooses to sacrifice Lilis.]
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It's a review of the Balloon Game. There's a similar theme of despair and certainty the other units will kill them on the part of the writer. It goes about how you'd expect, with BARiTONES playing hard most of the way through. But at the end, the writer notes that she balked at playing more than one balloon. She lied to Absinthe regarding the reasons. Sure, to a degree, it would probably hurt BARiTONES' chances in future games if people thought they needlessly caused carnage.
But the truth was that playing more than one balloon meant choosing a team that she didn't want to play against (Future is Now, Avante, Lilis). That, combined with her discomfort with causing the deaths of others (something she would never openly admit), caused her to balk. They compromise with two balloons, and of the three, Kohime chooses to sacrifice Lilis.]