[it was the answer Kaoru expected, but that doesn't make it much easier to accept.]

I wish that it was not so, but I will not be naive enough to hope for it. Preventative measures are most likely our best option - keeping a close eye on those on the list, and retaining our guards. ...It certainly does make looking into escape more difficult, when one is constantly concerned with the lives of themselves and the ones around them. [a purposeful game mechanism, no doubt.]