[ Shoko takes her chopsticks to grab a piece of karaage, too, without pausing at all for Edamura's question as she answers, again without further consideration: ]

I know that it is.

[ The mental toll, physical... the sleepless nights and drinking and smoking... ]

But it's something only I can do. Haibara used to say about why he wanted to become a sorcerer too - that's my kouhai who never made it out of school. You saw his ghost. Guess what he said stuck with me, too.