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[lr]What I'm about to tell you took place[sr]in the spring when I was fifteen years old.
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Back then, I thought the future[sr]was bright and full of hope.
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I was born into an environment far better than most could hope for, with talents far greater than most could dream of.
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I knew I was destined for great things,[sr]and that my purpose was to see them done.
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“I'm going to create something beautiful.”[sr]“I'm going to create something wonderful.”
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It was that ideal, that passion, that made me apply myself to my studies day in and day out.
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And as a result...
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...I ended up in this filthy dump; I found myself in a place that would never give rise to ideals or principles of any sort.
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＠Kirschtaria
Ghh...
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[lr]The pain in my chest made me gasp.
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I couldn't move my limbs at all, but fortunately,[sr]I was still able to treat the wound on my chest.
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Since I had been chosen to take over the family in lieu of my father, I possessed a magical crest that had been reinforced over eleven generations.
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It was designed to heal its bearer in the event they suffered an injury, even if they could not do so themselves.
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But...
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Now the crest was no longer functioning. Its mana was stagnant, like anecdotes from the Curses Department...
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I knew I must have been poisoned with an Anti-Mage toxin[line 2]one designed to attack its target's nerves and blood.
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Enough time had passed for the toxin to work through my body. Both my crest and circuits were completely dead.
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I could no longer counteract the toxin myself.[sr]I would require assistance.
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＠Kirschtaria
Ghh... Agh...
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[lr]The situation couldn't have been worse. I was trapped in enemy territory, and what strength I had was fading fast.
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The only hope I had of surviving was if my grandfather noticed something amiss and sent someone to rescue me.
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The problem was,[sr]I had no way of knowing if I would last that long...
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＠Boy
...Heehee. Heehee, heehee...[sr]Awake... Awake, awake...
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[lr]...especially with more of my father's assassins looking for me.
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＠Boy
...Hee... Heehee...
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[lr]It felt as though the basement room's already[sr]pungent stench had suddenly gotten even worse.
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[charaTalk A]
The boy was wearing a coat that someone else had clearly thrown away, and his hair hadn't been washed in years.
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[charaTalk A]
He must have carried me here to where he lived when he found me crawling through that alley after the attempt on my life.
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I could only guess he thought he could make money off of me based on my clothes and appearance.
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＠Boy
Heehee... Heeheehee.
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＠Boy
Still alive... Alive...
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＠Kirschtaria
...
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[lr]Hearing the boy digging through a can full of garbage,[sr]I was unable to hide my disgust.
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I was deeply ashamed by the fact that such[sr]a pitiful creature had saved my life.
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＠Boy
Heehee... Treasure...[sr]Treasure...
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＠Boy
Here... Eat...
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[lr]The boy pressed a piece of completely stale,[sr]moldy bread up to my mouth...
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...and forced me to eat it, wiping the crumbs off my face with his filthy sleeves.
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[charaTalk A]
Whatever his intent, his efforts were far from helpful. My wound had closed, but my digestive system was only barely working.
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Rather than helping me recover my strength, eating barely edible food like this would only upset my stomach and make my condition worse.
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＠Boy
It's good...[sr]Eat... Eat...
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＠Kirschtaria
...
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[lr]But, I lacked both the strength to resist and the energy to refuse. So I reluctantly opened my mouth and choked down the rock-hard bread.
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＠Boy
Heehee. Heeheehee. Heeheeheeheeheehee!
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[lr]Once I managed to finish the food he forced upon me, the boy stepped away from my “bed” with a satisfied smile.
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He then moved to a corner of the room where he sat[sr]down cross-legged, and continued his unsettling laugh.
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＠Kirschtaria
...(Cough)[sr](Cough, hack)...
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[lr]Though I was wracked with both chest pain and[sr]shame about the predicament I found myself in...
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...I realized there was nothing I could do,[sr]so I simply lay back and closed my eyes.
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This would all be over in a few hours, anyway. My assailant was almost surely a mage, and so it would be trivial for them to track me down.
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It was only a matter of time until they discovered this place and came to finish me off while I was still incapacitated.
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Any help that might be on its way[sr]would never get here in time.
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Not even a god could rescue me from this situation.
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But...my assailant never showed,[sr]even after several days had passed.
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I think I must have spent about ten days on that[sr]hard wooden bed without ever getting up.
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My body was still paralyzed, but by that point,[sr]I must have gotten accustomed to my environment.
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Slowly but surely, I took stock of my current situation.
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＠Boy
Heehee, heehee...[sr]Here... Eat this, too...
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＠Kirschtaria
...No thanks.[sr]Could I have some water instead?
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＠Boy
...
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[lr]The fact that this shed was located under[sr]a bridge was the one silver lining.
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Thanks to that, we had access to potable water,[sr]even if it wasn't entirely clean.
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＠Kirschtaria
...That's better.[sr]Say, how long have you been living here?
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＠Boy
?[sr]???
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＠Boy
Heehee... Never mind. Eat, eat.
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＠Kirschtaria
...
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[charaTalk A]
[lr]My best guess is, the boy had been living here[sr]since he lost his guardian several years ago.
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This shed[line 2]his home,[sr]must have belonged to his guardian.
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Even now I do not know if his parents abandoned him,[sr]or whether he was an orphan from birth.
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He had very little in the way of language skills.
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[charaTalk A]
This was hardly surprising, given that he could not have had a single real conversation with an adult in all his life.
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＠Kirschtaria
What's your name?[sr]Surely you must know that much.
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＠Boy
?
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＠Kirschtaria
...
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[charaTalk A]
[lr]I was shocked. I couldn't believe there was a child in this day and age, in a modern city no less, who didn't even know what names were.
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No... More than that, I wondered how he had managed[sr]to stay alive on his own all this time.
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＠Boy
Heehee, heehee...
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Scary, scary.[sr]Everyone scary.
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＠Boy
Hide, hide.[sr]Safe here. [wt 1.0]...Always safe.
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[lr]As the boy told me this,[sr]he stroked a pendant he wore around his neck.
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＠Kirschtaria
...Well I'll be.
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[lr]Even though I couldn't use magecraft at the time, I could still tell that the boy was holding a Mystic Code of concealment.
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What's more, it was an antique of incredible value:
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A talisman that belonged to a sect of witches who have been living in England's deepest forests since even before the Clock Tower was founded.
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＠Kirschtaria
Now I see. That explains it...
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[lr]No wonder my assailants hadn't been able to find me. The room I'd been staying in was rendered almost completely invisible.
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＠Kirschtaria
...You're right. That really is a treasure.
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＠Boy
?
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[lr]I couldn't bring myself to ask the boy if his parents had left him the talisman or if he had discovered it for himself somewhere, but at least I now understood his situation.
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[charaTalk A]
It was the pendant that had enabled him to carry[sr]me here from the alley without being seen.
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It must also have been what enabled him to[sr]safely “borrow” food from nearby stores.
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...I couldn't make up my mind whether his[sr]situation was encouraging or depressing.
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It was thanks to that pendant that the boy had been[sr]able to survive on his own all this time...
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...but it was also thanks to that pendant that he'd[sr]never needed to become involved with anyone else.
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In a very real sense,[sr]he had slipped through the cracks of society.
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＠Kirschtaria
So you're... Um...
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[lr]Unsure of what to say to him,[sr]I ended up saying nothing.
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＠Boy
Heehee, heeheehee...[sr]It's okay. It's okay.
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＠Boy
It's pretty. Pretty.[sr]Treasure. My treasure.
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＠Kirschtaria
...
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[lr]The boy gave me a big smile while gently tucking[sr]the pendant away, never grasping my true intentions.
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...Even thinking back on it now,[sr]it still makes my chest ache.
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Several more days passed,[sr]and I made a number of new discoveries.
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＠Boy
Always. Saw you. On bridge.[sr]Always. I saw.
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＠Kirschtaria
...
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[charaTalk A]
[lr]That finally jogged my memory. This boy was[sr]the vagrant I'd seen when crossing the bridge.
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Always. Saw you.[sr]...Always.
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[lr]I'll never understand what[sr]I must have seemed like to him.
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No, I'll go further. I should never[sr]presume to think I could understand.
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All I can say is that, as far as he was concerned, I was someone he'd seen crossing the bridge, and that was enough for him to help me.
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＠Boy
...
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[lr]The boy may have been ignorant, but he wasn't stupid.[sr]In his own way, he understood the current situation too.
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For starters, he never once left the room.
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Some part of him understood that if he went outside,[sr]even with the pendant...
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...there was a chance the people who[sr]attacked me would discover us.
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So for almost two weeks,[sr]he fed me using food he already had on hand.
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＠Boy
...Food...[sr]...Food, food...
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＠Kirschtaria
What's wrong?[sr]Is there a problem?
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＠Boy
...Heehee, heeheehee.
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＠Boy
No, no.
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＠Boy
No problem.[sr]Safe here. Safe...
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＠Kirschtaria
I see. Well that's all right then.
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[lr]Even having grown accustomed to this environment,[sr]I was beyond exhausted.
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I still couldn't move my limbs,[sr]and my strength was no closer to returning.
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It was no surprise. The food the boy was giving[sr]me had no nutritional value whatsoever.
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And while his pendant may have kept us safe from my[sr]assailants, it also kept us hidden from my allies.
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＠Kirschtaria
...
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[lr]I sighed loudly in despair, and closed my eyes.
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As I slept, I dreamed of my body rotting away like a decaying tree until I finally died.
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...
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＠Boy
Wake up, wake up.
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＠Kirschtaria
...?
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[lr]It was the first time the boy had[sr]ever woken me up of his own accord.
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＠Boy
Heehee... Heeheehee.[sr]Food, food.
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＠Boy
Eat, eat up.[sr]Have lots. Lots.
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＠Kirschtaria
Is that...?
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[lr]My voice all but broke in shameless excitement.
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In his hands, the boy was carrying a[sr]basket filled to the brim with bread.
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And not stale, moldy, leftover bread like he'd been giving me so far. This was bread that had clearly been freshly baked that morning.
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＠Kirschtaria
This is amazing. Although... It's all just bread, huh. Don't misunderstand, I do appreciate this, but if you were going out anyway, it would have been nice if you had gotten some other things, too.
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＠Boy
Here, food.[sr]Eat, eat.
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[lr]...I didn't realize until later why the[sr]boy had only had stale bread on hand.
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It was because, for the entirety of his life,[sr]he had never known any other sort of meal.
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I didn't understand that back then,[sr]since mine had been a life of luxury.
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Unfortunately, there was something else I failed to[sr]notice, too. Something much, much more important.
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＠Kirschtaria
Very well, don't mind if I do.[sr]Mmm, yes, this is much easier to eat. It's great.
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＠Boy
Heehee... Heeheehee...[sr]Hee... Hee...
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[lr]The boy suddenly fell into the bed as if he'd tripped on a rock, his arms clinging to the top near my pillow.
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He looked just like a child dozing off at their desk.
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＠Boy
...
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＠Kirschtaria
Hm? Are you oka[line 2]
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[lr]The boy had always looked so malnourished...
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...that I hadn't even noticed how sunken his cheeks[sr]now were, or the fresh bruises on his body.
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＠Boy
...Ah.
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[lr]He'd been living alone all this time.
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Of course he wouldn't have enough food on hand[sr]to feed two people for over two weeks.
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The only reason he'd had any at all was because nobody[sr]had stopped him from taking it, thanks to the pendant.
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The food he'd had on hand was only enough for one person[line 2]only enough for him to survive on his own.
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And ever since he'd taken me in,[sr]he'd not so much as set foot outside.
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He knew that if he left with the pendant,[sr]this room would no longer be safe.
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So he left it by my bed...to keep ME safe.
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In an instant, it was clear as day what he had done to bring me more food.
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He must have been accosted and beaten over and over.
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And since he had barely eaten a thing[sr]ever since he took me in...
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...the malnourished child simply[sr]could not endure such punishment.
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＠Boy
...Trea...sure...[sr]...Safe...safe...
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No. He couldn't have. No one would ever do something so absurd, so patently foolish...
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He may have been ignorant, but he was smart.[sr]He would never willingly choose to do this.
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Still on the bed, the boy looked at my face as[sr]I lay there as though he was gazing at the stars.
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＠Boy
...Pretty...[sr]Heehee... Pretty...pretty...
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＠Kirschtaria
...No. No, no, no.[sr]Hang in there. Please. You have to[line 2]
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＠Boy
...So...pretty...
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＠Kirschtaria
...
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[lr]At the time, I wasn't overcome with grief,[sr]or shock, or anger.
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I was just...done, with my own stupidity.
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I was completely and utterly fed up with how foolish[sr]I had been to only look at the future...
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...without seeing or relating to those I had previously treated as though they didn't exist.
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＠Kirschtaria
...Hah.
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[lr]Create something beautiful?[sr]Born to be a king? A chosen genius?
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What a joke. No... Jokes are at least funny.
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I had no idea what I had been talking about.
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I bragged endlessly about creating beautiful things, blindly trusting that simply calling them “beautiful” was enough.
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I had never once stopped to think about[sr]what it was that I considered beautiful.
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＠Kirschtaria
...
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[lr]The boy's value hadn't changed.
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He had wasted his life on something so foolish, so stupid as saving me.
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I was from the upper crust, and he was from the bottom of the barrel. That much was clear from what we were each bound to contribute to the world in the years to come.
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But, still...could I do what he did?
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Could I risk my life solely to keep[sr]a perfect stranger from starving?
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Could I risk my life without receiving anything in return, all for something I felt was beautiful?
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Why, of course...
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＠Kirschtaria
...I can do that.
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[lr]I roused my body from its long, long slumber,[sr]very literally burning my soul for energy.
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I could feel my magical circuits[line 2]a gift I had had all my life up to that point[line 2]physically crumble away.
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Then, after paying that steep price[line 2]too little too late by then[line 2]I ate every roll the boy had brought me.
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That's right.
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If he could do it, then I had to as well. Now that he had shown me what was possible, it was incumbent upon me to pay him back.
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For what he lacked in property,[sr]he more than made up for in benevolence.
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＠Kirschtaria
...I need to set my sights higher.[sr]I need to be stronger than ever.
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[lr]I shamelessly shoved the food into my mouth,[sr]silently willing my cells back to life.
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I had no time for regret of self-pity. No, I had a job to do...and I was determined to see it done.
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This was an entirely new motivation.[sr]I certainly wasn't born with these convictions.
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If my life had continued as planned, this new ideal would never have even occurred to me.
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But now...I've vowed to dedicate my life to it.
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To take all the many gifts I was given[line 2]gifts that boy couldn't even dream of[line 2]and use them to demonstrate the value of human life for as long as my own lasts.
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[lr]After taking the full force of Kirschtaria Wodime's Sirius Light, the Foreign God disappeared from this sector of space.
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Whether she was forced to retreat due to injury, or simply did so reflexively in response to the unexpected strike, is still unclear.
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Regardless, her exit meant that Olympus would be spared immediate destruction, and left only the Master and his Servant behind in the palace.
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＠Master
...So much for that. [bgm BGM_EVENT_110 0.1]In retrospect,[sr]I may have set my sights a bit too high.
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＠Servant
What the hell're you smiling about, you idiot? You look like a kid who just got caught with his hand in the candy jar.
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[lr]The Servant knelt down beside their Master[sr]despite the insults that continued coming...
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...painfully aware of how he would never walk again[sr]now that the bottom half of his body had been obliterated.
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The Master rested what remained of himself on the floor as it crumbled beneath them, and turned to look up at the sky.
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＠Servant
Damn, that Sirius Light was some serious shit.[sr]Ophelia's didn't do anything even close to that.
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＠Master
Well, this IS how they were originally supposed to be used. Director Marisbury told me that in confidence.
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＠Master
He said that if things ever looked truly bleak, I should use mine to save the world. Hehe... No pressure, right?
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[lr]The Master coughed dryly and brittlely as he spoke. His cough sounded like the rattling of dead tree branches.
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There was no more sign of the melodic springlike lilt[sr]that had previously been a fixture of his voice.
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＠Servant
You don't say? And here I thought all of Chaldea's[sr]directors were weak and pathetic.
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＠Servant
Sounds like this Marisbury punk was a hell of a guy.[sr]Never would've guessed.
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＠Master
Yes, he was. I always did respect him, but he turned out to be far more capable than me.
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＠Master
He may have been an avid scientist who only cared about his research, but he was also just as dangerous as you'd expect one of the Clock Tower's Twelve Lords to be.
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[lr]The Master laughed, acknowledging his defeat.[sr]There was no trace of regret in his voice.
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＠Master
I must admit, I never would have guessed that you would cooperate so willingly with Chaldea.
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＠Master
I was so shocked, I spilled my tea when I heard you joined their side just like that. I thought that would have taken considerably longer.
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Part of me was even a bit jealous. For a moment, I wondered if it meant you'd join anyone who defeated you.
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＠Servant
Hey! It wasn't “just like that,” and they never defeated me! That was all 'cause Poseidon messed up!
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＠Master
Then what convinced you?
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＠Servant
...
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＠Servant
...I guess it was Chaldea's leader asking me about you.
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Said he wanted to know what Kirschtaria Wodime[sr]was like now. Not as a mage, but as a person.
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I think...that was the big reason[sr]I helped 'em out this long.
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＠Master
Well that doesn't sound very worth your while. You've been helping them all this time without anything in return?
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＠Servant
Who said I didn't get anything out of it? In exchange, I had him tell me a shit ton of stories about you from your Clock Tower days!
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Ha! Some born champion you turned out to be!
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Turns out you were nothing but an overly cautious,[sr]stubborn-as-hell coward!
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Guess both the Dioscuri and Ophelia were completely wrong about you all along!
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[lr]The Servant laughed joyously.
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It wasn't laughter meant to mock the ones who had misunderstood the Master. It was meant to commend him for keeping up such a perfect front for so long.
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＠Master
...[sr]...
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[lr]The Master looked up at his Servant when he heard the laughter, squinting as if they were too bright to look upon.
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His eyesight had clouded over,[sr]and his breathing was already sharp and shallow.
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＠Servant
...Hey. What about you? You got anything you still[sr]want to say, or something you still want to do?
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Go on, let me hear it.[sr]I'll at least do that much for you.
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＠Master
...Something I still want to do, huh.
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[lr]And so, one small piece at a time,[sr]the Master told his Servant about his “what-ifs.”
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He explained how each Crypter was required to have an accomplishment worthy of overturning their death in order to bring them back to life.
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So the Foreign God created environments[line 2][sr]customized, subjective worlds...
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...Worlds that would let the dead[sr]Crypters achieve such a thing.
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The Master was then Shifted to these worlds that[sr]might have been, yet were never meant to be...
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...and from there, he and his fellow Crypter undertook[sr]a journey to restore humanity.
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＠Servant
...Damn, seriously?[sr]So what, you saved the world with them?
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＠Master
Only as part of a simulation.[sr]They were nothing compared to the real Singularities.
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Kadoc and I came to trust each other.[sr]Ophelia and I shared a laugh with each other.
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Akuta and I helped each other.[sr]Beryl and I disagreed with each other.
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Pepe must have saved me dozens of times. Arou may seem frivolous, but he has a strong sense of integrity.
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...I really enjoyed getting to understand them better. Getting to know their lives...
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[lr]But, all the time the Master spent with his teammates was no more than a dream, an illusion that was broken the moment his accomplishment was complete.
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Now, the only one in this whole world who remembered their trying but important journeys was the Master himself.
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＠Servant
...And you still treated 'em like that?[sr]What, is your heart made of stone or something?
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＠Master
What else...could I do? If I'd told them...[sr]they wouldn't know...what to make of it.
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So I just...kept it all to myself...like any other dream.
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[lr]More precisely, he locked the experiences away so he would never look at them again. To make sure that, regardless of what happened, they would never fade away.
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＠Master
...Heh. A journey to...restore humanity, huh.[sr]That may not be...the best way to put it...
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＠Master
But, if it were at all possible...I really wanted...to save the world with everyone in Team A...together.
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＠Servant
...
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[lr]The Master truly loved his teammates.[sr]Not as their leader, but as their friend.
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They're the same, the Servant thought bitterly.
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This Master, and Chaldea's Master,[sr]were in the exact same position.
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...[sr]...
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[lr]As his breathing slows, one last thought flits across the Master's mind, like a shooting star in the night sky.
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＠Servant
...The hell were you thinking, you idiot?[sr]You didn't have to try so hard all by yourself.
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＠Master
...Haha. I'm glad to hear you...say that, Caenis...[sr]but you're wrong.
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I was never...all by myself.
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＠Master
All humans are...trying to do their best.
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Tch. Like hell they are. Don't you try and pull that shit with me, Kirschta[line 2]
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[lr]There is no answer.[sr]His soul is already gone.
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...
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[lr]The Servant turns towards the sky as though watching a bird fly away, never to return.
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...Mistakes flood the Servant's mind.[sr]Unquenchable hatred pounds the Servant's heart.
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The Servant wasn't about to reject the past or previous actions. The pride this Heroic Spirit held refused to sully the very nature of a hero.
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After all, the Servant had been the one who laughed at the world of humans[line 2]the one who mocked and wreaked havoc upon it. That aspect would never change.
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The Servant was well aware they were a villain who hated humans, despised gods, shunned what was right, and embraced what was wrong.
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But even so, in spite of all that...
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＠Servant
Dammit...
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...I'm the idiot.
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[lr]Even if everything about her/him was evil...
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...she/he remembered what she/he was meant to protect,[sr]even as she/he regretted failing to do so.
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She/He took up her spear of lightning,[sr]and a golden bird took flight.
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Her/His next actions would not[sr]be for her/his own glory...
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...but to show that she/he was indeed the[sr]right Heroic Spirit for her/his Master.
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