[she doesn't like that answer, just for Tsumugi's sake, but a lot of tension she didn't realize she'd been holding visibly drops from her at it regardless, and she nods a little in acknowledgement.]

Hopefully the obvious scapegoat will make it through the night and be right there for the voting [will, she means will] and no one is gonna actually care about anything else long enough to make us think of a cool cover story for why we're all cut up.