[Well, probably the first thing that sticks out as a good example is last week's execution with Otome and Kaoruko, but it feels like it would be greatly insensitive bring that up right now.]

This place. I was told we are being made into part of this world permanently, like those who cannot seem to comprehend anything strange. [Like Francy and Anna at the bakery... or the other students.] Death--if that is what this is--halts the process, and keeps us as ourselves. It means those working against it may be able to save us.

...I do not know if I would have believed it, had my thoughts not been manipulated shortly after.

[It had taken some time to figure out what was going on, and by then things were already a chaotic mess, but now that he's looking back on it, it seems like solid evidence towards the truth of what he was told.]