As von Karma started in on his meal in his new room, he reflected on what had happened during the previous shift. Despite the promise of a potential new minion, his mood had gone from marginally pleasant to grumpy (although the latter was hardly new for him) just in the space of what was apparently only a couple of hours. His attempt to control the high amount of worthless nonsense on the bulletin board was foiled by reminders that he was merely adding to the "noise to signal ratio." Very well. If they were uninterested in using it to share more practical information, such as what his student and this "Lelouch" were doing, so be it. He would just have to continue to seek out more rational people to talk to in person, such as Javert.

The conversation with his former roommate had brought about more questions than answers. Other people had disappeared and returned but without memories of this place? Why had this not been the case for him? But before they could solve this bizarre riddle, the blasted nurse had dragged him to the shower, thus abruptly ending their talk. Unfortunately, he would not get to talk to Javert again for the rest of the day; they both had been assigned new roommates.

von Karma was not particularly eager to meet this person, especially since the nurse had said that he was new to the Institute. The last thing he felt up to doing was answering questions from an ignorant patient -- especially when he himself had a number of them that were as yet unanswered. Hopefully, someone else had already filled this man in on the oddities of this chaotic hellhole.