Okay, that's that☆ Now I have a muuuch better idea of what you're all capable of!
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＠Gareth
Whoa... So those are the famous Norwich treasure golems I've heard so much about. They really do run on pixie dust!
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？1：Great job, team☆
？2：So this is why Pepe brought us out to these mountains...
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＠Senji Muramasa
I was wondering what you were goin' on about when you suddenly asked if we wanted to exercise...
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＠Senji Muramasa
But not only did those things turn out to be pushovers, they were loaded with treasure!
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＠Senji Muramasa
It IS okay if we keep these spoils of war for ourselves, right, Count?
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＠Count Peperon
Of course. The Child of Prophecy's party has gotta live in style.
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＠Gareth
I know, right!? Thanks, Count!
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＠Gareth
Come on, Altria, [%1]![sr]Let's go back to Norwich and spend some of this money!
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＠Gareth
I heard they have a wakame flavored gelato here that's to die for!
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？1：(Wakame? Where are we, Tokushima?)
？2：(I guess it makes sense a port town would use seaweed in its cuisine...)
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＠Altria
Nnn, I think I'll pass for now! Or at least until Muramasa taste tests it for me!
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＠Senji Muramasa
Huh. Wakame flavored sweets? What, do they sprinkle sugar on seaweed or something?
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＠Senji Muramasa
I mean, I ain't gonna turn it down. I'd just rather have plain old gelato...
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＠Da Vinci
Hmm, hmm. It looks like all the tensions that were building when we first heard what the deal was in Norwich have eased away nicely.
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＠Da Vinci
I'm impressed, Count. You found a way to help us relax AND get a handle on our abilities all at once.
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＠Count Peperon
Who, me? I was just pawning off some grunt work. You guys saved me the trouble of taking out those golems myself.
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＠Count Peperon
You really shouldn't be so quick to trust me, Da Vinci. Like I said, I'm still a Crypter.
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＠Count Peperon
Once this business with Beryl is taken care of,[sr]I'm going right back to being your enemy.
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＠Da Vinci
...A Crypter, huh.[sr]Your real name was Myourenji Arou, right?
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＠Da Vinci
According to Chaldea's database, you were doing dirty work for the Mage's Association when Marisbury discovered you...
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＠Da Vinci
Then he assigned you to Chaldea after transferring you to the Astromancy Department.
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＠Da Vinci
That all lines up with what you told us in India, too. But that's as far back as your record goes.
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＠Da Vinci
Since you helped us out both in India and Olympus, and it looks like you're going to help us here, too...
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＠Da Vinci
Would it be too presumptuous to say I consider you an ally, and I'd love to know what really makes you tick?
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＠Count Peperon
Oh wow, that hit me like a bolt of lightning, hon! You really are a genius to come up with a line like that!
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＠Da Vinci
Really? Was it that good? I've never hit on anyone before, so that's good to know.
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＠Count Peperon
Oh yes, darling. It was simply wonderful.
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＠Count Peperon
After all, you said it for me, not for Chaldea.
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＠Count Peperon
All right. It's not a very fun story, but if you really want to hear it, well, how can I refuse now?
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＠Count Peperon
So, you want to know what happened back when I still went by Myourenji Arou?
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＠Count Peperon
You want to know what kind of person I really am?
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＠Count Peperon
Well, you probably have a good idea already from the kind of work I did for the Clock Tower.
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＠Count Peperon
My family comes from a long line of Shugendou practitioners[line 2]specifically, Tengudou, the Way of the Tengu.
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＠Count Peperon
It's a sect of Shugendou whose ultimate goal is to have it's practitioners[line 2]referred to as fallen or corrupted tengu[line 2]arrive in hell.
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＠Count Peperon
I was good enough at it that everyone[sr]used to fawn over me...
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＠Count Peperon
But, well, me being me, it's no surprise that they eventually decided to expel me.
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＠Count Peperon
So, once my family stopped being my family, I tied up a few loose ends and put Japan behind me.
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＠Da Vinci
By which you mean...
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＠Count Peperon
I killed my entire family and the sect, yes.
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＠Da Vinci
...So, there's no one alive who knows your past. That would explain why there weren't any records of it.
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＠Da Vinci
So why did you do that, anyway?
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＠Count Peperon
...Can't it just be because I thought it was for the best?
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＠Count Peperon
The Myourenji family was a single[sr]generation of Houjutsushi.
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＠Count Peperon
Our founder managed to form a connection to Sanat Kumara on Mt. Kurama after he fell to Tengudou...
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＠Count Peperon
But his descendants weren't so lucky.
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＠Count Peperon
They had to undergo long, intensive training to make their bodies superhuman without the power of Sanat Kumara.
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＠Count Peperon
In some ways, it was similar to how Muramasa lived.
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＠Count Peperon
You practically kill yourself trying to come up with a special circuit[line 2]well, body, really[line 2]and you can never pass it along to anyone else before you die.
I was directly descended from the founder, so I was born and raised on Mt. Kurama...
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＠Count Peperon
But all the other Myourenji children were kids they abducted from around the foothills.
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＠Count Peperon
In ancient times, child mortality rates used to be much higher than now...
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＠Count Peperon
So back then it was easy to get away with kidnapping the occasional kid to raise as their own, but not now.
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＠Count Peperon
Plus, if the kids couldn't keep up with the training, they'd be abandoned in the mountains. And even if they persevered, the only thing waiting for them was a fall from grace into hell.
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＠Count Peperon
If messing with people's destinies wasn't bad enough on its own, the fact that the only choice they replaced it with was “death or disgraced tengu” made it even worse.
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＠Count Peperon
Any group that would keep doing something like that is irredeemable. So when I decided to leave the mountain, I killed them all first.
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＠Da Vinci
Even though they were your family?
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＠Count Peperon
BECAUSE they were my family. I wouldn't have cared if they'd been strangers.
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＠Count Peperon
But since they were my family, it was my responsibility to make sure they never ruined any more kids' lives.
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＠Count Peperon
I'm very sentimental, but I'm even more of a neat freak. That's why I chose to make a clean break with my family instead of sticking with them.
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＠Count Peperon
Basically, I'm a no-good scumbag who'd rather keep things neat and tidy than honor my Crypter obligations.
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＠Count Peperon
That's probably why I've been helping you guys, too.
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＠Count Peperon
Well? Are you convinced?
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＠Da Vinci
Yup. It turns out you're much stronger than I'd given you credit for.
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＠Da Vinci
By the way, purely out of curiosity:[sr]How talented were you, exactly?
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＠Count Peperon
Well...
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＠Count Peperon
If a Myourenji Houjutsushi can acquire one of the six Buddhist powers known as Rokujintsu in a hundred years...
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＠Count Peperon
...that's enough for them to officially be considered a tengu.
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＠Count Peperon
I'd mastered three of them by the time I turned ten.
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＠Count Peperon
Jinsokutsu: the power to run at superhuman speeds. Tashintsu: the power to read people's minds.
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＠Count Peperon
And Rojintsu: the power to know how long I'll live, and what my fate will be.
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＠Count Peperon
Can't blame them for thinking I was some kind of prodigy!
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＠Count Peperon
Ooh, this is so embarrassing! Now you know just how cruel I've been ever since I was born!
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＠Count Peperon
Don't tell the others about this, okay!?
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＠Count Peperon
I'd like to keep this our little secret!
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＠Da Vinci
Man, I'm so glad Count Peperon is a gourmand!
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＠Da Vinci
That was the first full course meal I've gotten to eat in the twenty-six days since we first got to Faerie Britain!
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？1：It was a great mix of both Italian and Japanese food, wasn't it?
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＠Da Vinci
Yup! Altria and Gareth didn't know what to make of it at first, but it didn't take them long to see the appeal.
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＠Da Vinci
Too bad Oberon didn't join us, though. Come to think of it, I don't know if I've ever seen him eat.
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？2：Huh? Don't you mean sixteen days?
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＠Da Vinci
Aha. I've suspected since we left Salisbury that we might be on different pages there!
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＠Da Vinci
Okay, this seems as good a time as any to clear this up, so let's go ahead and do that.
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＠Da Vinci
You probably feel as though you've spent ten fewer days in Faerie Britain than you actually have.
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＠Da Vinci
That's because you were unconscious for ten days after you passed out in the Nameless Woods.
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＠Da Vinci
And the reason I know that is because you guys showed up at Mike's establishment about ten days after I started working there.
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？！
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＠Da Vinci
Anyway, it's getting pretty late. I know we have a lot to think about, but for now, we should make sure we're well-rested for tomorrow.
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＠Da Vinci
We can split up into two teams in[sr]the morning, and by then...
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＠Da Vinci
...it should be pretty clear whether we ought to focus on scouting out Spriggan's vault castle, or on investigating the calamity pool.
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＠Da Vinci
Okay, good night, [%1].
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＠Da Vinci
Take advantage of the private room the Count gave you to get plenty of rest, okay?
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＠Oberon
Oh, hello.
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？1：Hi, Oberon.
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＠Oberon
Good evening, [%1].[sr]I was just heading out for a bit.
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？2：Going out on another recon run?
？！
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＠Oberon
I'm not cut out for combat like the rest of you, so I need to at least keep a close eye on things.
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＠Oberon
You're turning in for the night, right? You deserve to enjoy a real bed after so much camping out.
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＠Oberon
Now that we have not one, but two Children of Prophecy here in Norwich, there's no chance of Morgan sitting idly by.
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＠Oberon
So I thought I'd go see what's happening in Camelot, at least as best I can.
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＠Oberon
Don't worry, I'll be back by morning.[sr]See you la[line 2]
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＠Oberon
...[sr]...On second thought...
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＠Oberon
I'm just going to ask you:[sr]Are you okay?
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？1：...What do you mean?
？2：...Do I not seem okay?
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＠Oberon
I thought you would insist we head to the vault castle immediately when we were talking about Spriggan and Mash.
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＠Oberon
But you didn't say anything. You stuck to the same priorities we've been following so far.
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＠Oberon
I'm sure you want nothing more than to go after her, but as the Master of Chaldea, you decided to stay the course.
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＠Oberon
It was the right call, but seeing that face you made, I still couldn't help but worry about you.
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？1：It's like you said: I should trust her, not worry about her.
？2：I'm just following your advice to trust her instead of worry about her.
？！
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＠Oberon
Nnn. Yeah, I did say that, but...
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＠Oberon
[f small]...Dammit, why did I have to say that back then?[sr][f small]If only I'd known they'd be reunited so soon...
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＠Oberon
Sorry, just thinking out loud.[sr]Anyway, let me just say this.
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＠Oberon
...Mash said she still hadn't recovered her memories since leaving the Nameless Woods, right?
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＠Oberon
Well, I'm afraid Da Vinci's theory was right.
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＠Oberon
If someone who forgets their name in the Nameless Woods is given a stronger role[line 2]that is, a new self[line 2]than they had before they lost their memories...
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＠Oberon
...they may not ever be able to return to who they once were.
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＠Oberon
I don't know how Mash ended up taking on the role of Child of Prophecy herself...
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＠Oberon
...but did the Mash you know have a role that could possibly surpass it?
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＠Oberon
A role bigger than responsibility for the fate of the world, with everyone's hopes and dreams on her shoulders?
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＠Oberon
...Exactly. It's hard to imagine she did. Which means...the Mash you're looking for is gone.
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＠Oberon
We only need one Child of Prophecy to uncover Faerie Britain's secrets, and we already have Altria for that.
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＠Oberon
So I have to ask... Do you still need to concern yourself with Mash?
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＠Oberon
Even though she might never remember you, or go back to being the Mash you knew?
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？1：...
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＠Oberon
...Never mind. It's obvious you do.
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＠Oberon
Sorry for wasting your time. I clearly should've known better than to ask.
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＠Oberon
Anyway, I'll be happy to lend you my full support! Anything you want to know about the state of the world, I'll learn for you!
