[ There are other staff members inside the office, doing that thing where they sit and shuffle papers and pretend they're not listening in but they are- but with the sort of detached curiosity where they will get up and leave for class once it gets closer to the start of class time.
Either way, the vice principal's desk is in a corner and she doesn't pay her coworkers any mind, just looking between Komaeda and Shuichi as they speak in turn. She gives Komaeda a thin lipped smile at being asked what the point is of her position, because honestly? she asks herself the same thing every day. ]
It's not, when it's a system long since set up by the school's principal.
[ Like a background thing, that becomes universal knowledge. Awarding points for solving Aiko's murder is after the fact as well, and wasn't involved in incentivizing her murder— even what Komaeda had said, "even the culprit rewarded," is a weak incentive when the same points can be earned through normal day to day school activities, and those same points have only been used at the vending machines as far as they know. ]
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Either way, the vice principal's desk is in a corner and she doesn't pay her coworkers any mind, just looking between Komaeda and Shuichi as they speak in turn. She gives Komaeda a thin lipped smile at being asked what the point is of her position, because honestly? she asks herself the same thing every day. ]
It's not, when it's a system long since set up by the school's principal.
[ Like a background thing, that becomes universal knowledge. Awarding points for solving Aiko's murder is after the fact as well, and wasn't involved in incentivizing her murder— even what Komaeda had said, "even the culprit rewarded," is a weak incentive when the same points can be earned through normal day to day school activities, and those same points have only been used at the vending machines as far as they know. ]