[ Oh, she knows. She knows exactly what they’re both talking about. Her gaze and her words are so direct that Sonico’s a little unnerved – but she swallows hard. She hasn’t done anything she feels ashamed of, to feel guilty about, or at least not in the way Asuka’s asking her. ]

... We escaped, in the end. It... took so long, but we did it. We came out right here in Kalos, and we stayed here for a while, then... well, some of us went home. A few of felt like... after everything, going home wouldn’t really work for us. So we stayed here.

[ none of it’s exactly a lie -- but it’s certainly not the whole truth, either. She’s twisting things a bit, flubbing some of the details, but that’s mostly because she simply can’t be sure that their experiences line up so perfectly. Being trapped in one of those fake schools is one thing, but a murder game is quite another. ]