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＠O：Cú Chulainn
...Phew. I lost.
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＠O：Cú Chulainn
Not bad, [&princess, kid:princesses].[sr]You beat me fair and square.
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＠O：Cú Chulainn
I suppose I'd better accept defeat, then. Fine. What do you want to talk about?
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...
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＠K：Cú Chulainn
That's our cue to leave.
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＠K：Cú Chulainn
You're in charge now. If talk is what you want, get talking.
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＠J：Cú Chulainn
Right. So, what're you gonna do, Master?
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？1：What do you want me to do, Scáthach-Skadi?
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
...Stay.
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？1：(Nods)
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＠K：Cú Chulainn
Well, see ya later.
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＠O：Cú Chulainn
There they go.
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＠O：Cú Chulainn
So. What'd you want to talk about?
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
...
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＠O：Cú Chulainn
Hm?
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
...
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＠O：Cú Chulainn
Uh...anybody home?
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＠O：Cú Chulainn
...Is the princess asleep?
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？1：Wait, Cú Chulainn.
？2：Give her a minute.
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＠O：Cú Chulainn
Uh...okay.
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
...
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[lr]With pursed lips, she hung her head low...
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Silence reigned for a moment before she lifted her head and opened her mouth to speak.
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Her hesitation in that moment was plain for all present to see.
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The silence stretched out for several minutes.
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
...Oh, right. [bgm BGM_EVENT_75 0.1]
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
R-right. There is something I wish to say to you.
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Something, rather...that I must ask you.
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＠O：Cú Chulainn
Okay. This is kinda funny, though.
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＠O：Cú Chulainn
Weren't you the one avoiding me in the beginning? Or am I remembering it wrong?
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Th-that's not true.
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＠O：Cú Chulainn
Is that so?
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Yes.
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
...
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Or maybe...that might...be true...
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
You may have been avoiding me, but I too...
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
I, too, may have been avoiding you.
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Because...what could I tell you at this point?
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
You, who left me. You, who left everything to me.
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
You, who did not save me.
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
You, who never once greeted me...
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Even after I became a shadowy figure from the Lostbelt, recorded in humanity's history, and manifested in this world...
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
The great hero...the Child of Light. Cú Chulainn of Ulster.
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
No...
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Odin, the Allfather.
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？1：...
？！

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＠Cú Chulainn
Sorry, but you got the wrong guy. Most of that Allfather aspect is gone thanks to my resummoning.
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＠Cú Chulainn
You should know that, Master.
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＠Cú Chulainn
It just so happened that this pain-in-the-ass job of saving humanity was passed onto[line 2]I mean, forced onto me.
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＠Cú Chulainn
I'm not the guy you're looking for.
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
...
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＠Cú Chulainn
Well, for a start:
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＠Cú Chulainn
Odin the Allfather from the Lostbelt and Odin from Proper Human History are technically the same, but not the same.
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＠Cú Chulainn
Their origin may be the same, but they ultimately followed different paths.
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＠Cú Chulainn
They are each versions of what might have been, so I don't think it's fair to treat them like the same pe[line 2]
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
You speak nonsense!
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
You hung yourself on the tree! You learned what was beyond death after nine nights!
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
At the price of one of your eyes, you came to know the truth of all things, and devised the Primordial Rune...
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
You can't possibly not know how to use it.
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＠O：Cú Chulainn
How to use it?
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Yes.
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Morgan of Faerie Britain and Odysseus of the Mediterranean are said to have gained the same records from Proper Human History.
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
I do not believe you when you say you cannot do what they could.
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＠O：Cú Chulainn
Well, no... Okay, look. The circumstances are completely different.
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＠O：Cú Chulainn
Morgan and Odysseus are said to have taken that information from their counterparts.
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＠O：Cú Chulainn
The Odin from Proper Human History doesn't have a counterpart to take from. The same goes for the Lostbelt one.
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＠O：Cú Chulainn
They're higher beings. Divine Spirits.
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
...
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Th-then what about the King of Heroes?
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
That ancient king is said to use omniscient Noble Phantasms to see infinite worlds through their different selves.
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Aren't you able to do so as well!?
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Odin synchronized his own records into his daughters, the Valkyries.
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＠O：Cú Chulainn
That...may be possible.
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＠O：Cú Chulainn
If we were talking about Odin himself, that is.
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＠O：Cú Chulainn
But we aren't. I'm not Odin. I keep telling you this, but I'm not him. Sorry.
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
[f small]Shut up...
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＠O：Cú Chulainn
Hm? What was that?
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Shut up!
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＠Cú Chulainn
!
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？1：Skadi...
？2：(Say nothing)
？！

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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Shut up, shut up, shut up! You...!
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[lr]Tears...
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Tears pooled in her eyes.
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Each was like a droplet of wintry ice.
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
You are Odin. This cannot be denied...
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Why...?
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Why...why did you leave me, and only me?
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Why...?
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Why did you let me live, and why did you leave me the Norse world?
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Tell me...
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Tell me why you didn't save me...or my children?
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？1：...
？2：(Hold back)
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
I was alone...
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
I tried so desperately to reach out within miracle of the Tree of Emptiness. But ultimately...
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
It was a false cycle of life. A false god. False envoys.
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
I spoke of love.
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
I made my children sing love's praises even as I killed them. I gave them no chance to resist or think for themselves.
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Millions of lives ended in that world.
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
A world where Valhalla was a fraud...devoid even of Helheim.
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
I may as well be the god of death at that point.
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Now that I've gained the knowledge of Proper Human History, I can say this:
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
For more than three thousand years, I was the god who oversaw hell!
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＠Cú Chulainn
...
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Even the likes of Thor and Loki would decry what I did, had they been there to see.
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Odin, Allfather...
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
...who holds all the world's wisdom...
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
...as the gods disappeared during Ragnarök...
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
...why didn't you...
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
...kill me, too?
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？1：Skadi...
？2：(Watch silently)
？！

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＠Medb
...
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＠Holmes
Are you not going over there?
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＠Medb
No, it's fine.
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＠Medb
I'm just loaning out my Cú for now. I'm already surrounded by Cús anyway.
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＠K：Cú Chulainn
Hey.
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＠J：Cú Chulainn
Good grief.
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＠Medb
Besides, that Cú's got some other stuff in the mix, diluting his Cúness.
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＠Holmes
Ah, so that is how they convinced you. But, are we not operating under the pretense that he has no other attributes in the mix, so to speak?
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＠Medb
...I don't know what you're talking about.
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＠Cú Chulainn
I keep telling you, you've got the wrong guy.
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＠Cú Chulainn
The Odin who helped me and the Allfather you know from the Lostbelt are entirely different beings.
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＠Cú Chulainn
So I'm not going to say anything. That's the vow I made...
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＠Cú Chulainn
...
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＠Cú Chulainn
But...I never meant to make a woman cry.
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
...
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＠Cú Chulainn
So I'll say this one thing. I'm not under a geis about this, so it should be fine to say.
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＠Cú Chulainn
Odin's meddling and paranoia are boundless.
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＠Cú Chulainn
If you put it that way, there really is no difference between the Odin of Proper Human History and the Odin of the Lostbelt.
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＠Cú Chulainn
As a man who interacted with Odin, even if it was just once...
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＠Cú Chulainn
I can say that the answer's really simple.
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＠Cú Chulainn
It pains me to say this as a fellow male, but this problem really just stems from Odin's...male sense of chivalry.
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？1：Chivalry?

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＠Cú Chulainn
Yeah, that's right.
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？2：(Knowing look)

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＠Cú Chulainn
Oh hey, you get it too, Master? I guess it's obvious.
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？！

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＠Cú Chulainn
All right. I've made up my mind. I'm going to tell you! If the Allfather comes to gripe at me about this later, to hell with him!
[k]

＠Cú Chulainn
It's better than watching the princess cry a river.
[k]

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＠Cú Chulainn
I'm only going to say this once, so listen carefully!
[k]

[charaFace O 5]

＠Cú Chulainn
Basically, Odin, the bastard...
[k]

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[charaFace O 0]

＠Cú Chulainn
...fell for you.
[k]

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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Huh...?
[k]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
What did you...just say?
[k]

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＠Cú Chulainn
I just told you I'd only say it once.
[k]

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[charaTalk A]
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Wh-what?
[k]

？1：He loved you.
？！

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？1：He probably wanted you to live.
？！
＠Scáthach-Skadi
But...!
[k]

[charaFaceFade A 14 0.3]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
That...can't be...
[k]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
That's just...
[k]

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[charaTalk O]
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＠Cú Chulainn
Selfish, yeah? Yup. It's pretty self-serving. Cruel, even.
[k]

＠Cú Chulainn
I might've mentioned this earlier, but he probably peeked into other worlds.
[k]

[charaFace O 5]

＠Cú Chulainn
He's got that annoying ability to see everything. The Proper Human History Odin would be able to look into the Lostbelt.
[k]

＠Cú Chulainn
And vice versa. So, I expect the Lostbelt Odin probably saw something.
[k]

[charaFace O 0]
＠Cú Chulainn
Maybe a glimpse of what was going to happen to Proper Human History three thousand years later.
[k]

＠Cú Chulainn
In the far corner of the planet that was bleached white...
[k]

＠Cú Chulainn
Let's say he might have seen you with a childlike expression as you enjoyed a frozen treat.
[k]

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＠Scáthach-Skadi
!
[k]

？1：(Silently nod)
？！

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＠Scáthach-Skadi
That...can't be...
[k]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
But that's...such an absurd reason to...
[k]

[charaFaceFade A 15 0.3]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
All my beloved children...the days we spent...
[k]

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＠O：Cú Chulainn
Yeah.
[k]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
A frozen treat, you say?
[k]

＠O：Cú Chulainn
Yeah.
[k]

[charaFaceFade A 13 0.3]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
You're saying that he saw me eat a frozen treat...here?
[k]

[charaFace O 4]

＠O：Cú Chulainn
Yeah.
[k]

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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Oh... If that is true...
[k]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
Then Odin is a fool. He is the very height of stupidity!
[k]

[charaFaceFade U 14 0.3]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
Truly, he is...
[k]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
...a fool...
[k]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
Wiser than anyone in the world and still a fool...the biggest fool I've ever known!
[k]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
A fool beyond any hope of salvation...
[k]

？1：(Silence)
？2：Scáthach-Skadi...

？！

＠Scáthach-Skadi
I...
[k]

[charaFaceFade U 13 0.3]
[charaFace A 13]
[charaFace O 4]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
I am far past being enthralled by a god's affections like some innocent maiden!
[k]

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＠Cú Chulainn
...
[k]

＠Cú Chulainn
Yeah, you're right.
[k]

[charaFace O 5]

＠Cú Chulainn
Anyway, I said what I needed to say. Satisfied?
[k]

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[charaTalk A]
[charaFace A 15]
[charaFadein A 0.1 1]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
...Y-yes...
[k]

[charaFaceFade A 14 0.3]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
R-right. You're right. His love means nothing after all this time.
[k]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
From here on...
[k]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
I will deny myself any further frozen treats, as penance for my children...
[k]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
I-I mustn't allow the Allfather's whims to affect me...
[k]

？1：Wait.
？2：That's probably the wrong response.
？！

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？1：Does love really have to have meaning?
？！

[charaFaceFade A 16 0.3]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
...!
[k]

？1：You should keep on smiling.
？！

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？1：It's not just Odin who'd want that.
？2：I want that too.
？！

＠Scáthach-Skadi
You... Really?
[k]

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＠
[lr]As she spoke...she once again bowed her head.
[k]

＠
One second...two seconds...three seconds...
[k]

＠
Four seconds passed before she lifted her head and, ah...
[k]

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＠
Tears still glittered in her eyes, but her face was no longer a mask of sadness.
[k]

＠
Now, embarrassment and happiness mingled rather than warred.
[k]

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＠Scáthach-Skadi
...[%1].
[k]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
O human child...who has never given up...who forges ever onward.
[k]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
Is that what you truly feel?
[k]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
Am I correct in believing that you did not speak out of pity?
[k]

？1：(Nod determinedly)
？！

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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Very well.
[k]

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＠
[lr]She seemed convinced and nodded lightly.
[k]

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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Then...
[k]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
I accept that your words are heartfelt, and yes, I will continue enjoying frozen treats.
[k]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
It seems I have no means to learn of the Allfather's intentions from him directly, for the time being.
[k]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
But I shouldn't stop eating the frozen treats. They are not to blame.
[k]

？1：I don't think neither the Allfather or frozen treats had any ill intentions.
？！

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＠
[lr]Following these events...
[k]

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＠
Scáthach-Skadi the Divine Spirit is currently stable. A most pleasant outcome.
[k]

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＠
She has retained her memories and experiences from the Lostbelt.
[k]

＠
The cruel decisions she'd been required to make to maintain her rule in the Lostbelt, to say nothing of its harsh conditions, must have weighed heavily upon her.
[k]

＠
God or no, three thousand years is long enough to put quite a strain on her.
[k]

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＠
Therefore, in such a case as this...
[k]

＠
...it was entirely possible for her Spirit Origin to collapse from the psychological trauma of what she recalled from the Scandinavian Lostbelt.
[k]

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＠
Ultimately, Master managed to secure the best possible result.
[k]

＠
In fact, it exceeded my most optimistic projections. I must commend Master, the Cú Chulainns, and Queen Medb for their excellent work.
[k]

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＠
[align center]This concludes the report of Sherlock Holmes.[align]
[k]

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＠Scáthach
Heh heh. Is there an issue with me eating a frozen treat?
[k]

＠Scáthach
Why are you so flushed, Medb? You keep muttering to yourself, and I can't understand you.
[k]

＠Scáthach
Do not tell me you've mistaken me for the other me.
[k]

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＠Medb
NO, I DID NOT! Why would you think that, anyway!?
[k]

＠Medb
Now I'm pissed! I'm mad all the time, but today I'm extra, extra mad!
[k]

[charaFace M 14]
＠Medb
Let's go outside, Scáthach! Today, I'm showing you who's best, once and for all!
[k]

？1：Come on now, don't fight.
？2：There are better things to do than to fight!
？！

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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Master is right.
[k]

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＠Medb
Ugh.
[k]

[charaFace W 0]

＠W：Scáthach
Oh?
[k]

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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Fighting is a waste of time. She wants to enjoy her treat, so let her enjoy it.
[k]

[charaFace A 12]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
Frozen treats are wonderful. They're sweet, they're cold...
[k]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
They're sweet and cold!
[k]

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＠Scáthach
Mhmm. Exactly!
[k]

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＠Medb
Everyone knows that! And cut it out! I don't want to see the same two faces nodding in the same way!
[k]

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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Fufufu.
[k]

＠W：Scáthach
Fufufu.
[k]

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＠Medb
Stop it, stop it! But, now that I look closer, your expressions are completely different.
[k]

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＠Medb
Argh! I said, cut it out!
[k]

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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Frozen treats?
[k]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
What is that? Is that what you call snow in your native language?
[k]

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[charaTalk D]
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[charaFadein D 0.4 1]
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＠Ophelia
Apologies, Your Majesty.
[k]

＠Ophelia
Ice cream and ice pops. They are both considered frozen treats in Proper Human History.
[k]

[charaFace D 4]

＠Ophelia
Something called gelato is another type of ice cream.
[k]

[charaFace D 9]

＠Ophelia
Which is why...um...
[k]

＠Ophelia
...when I said that Mt. Galdhøpiggen from Proper Human History was like gelato, my metaphor was not accurate.
[k]

[charaFace D 8]

＠Ophelia
That may have caused you confusion. Please pardon my verbal gaffe.
[k]

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[charaFace A 9]
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Frozen treats...
[k]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
Hmmm...
[k]

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[charaFace A 9]
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＠Ophelia
Your Majesty?
[k]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
Yes, sounds good. Now that you've brought that to mind.
[k]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
I'm not at all interested in Proper Human History, but I'd like to take this opportunity to ask you something.
[k]

[charaFace D 12]

＠Ophelia
...?
[k]

[charaFace A 12]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
Hehe. You make the cutest expressions.
[k]

[charaFace A 9]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
The cultivation of the Tree of Emptiness is going well. That means your mother has some time on her hands.
[k]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
And I am a naturally curious one, at that. Since you, my new daughter, have mentioned this strange new term...
[k]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
I am compelled to know more about it. Hehehe.
[k]

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＠Scáthach-Skadi
So, let me ask you again.
[k]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
These frozen treats...are they ice that you consume?
[k]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
If you are speaking of simply adding flavoring to ice, I have done that to amuse myself on a few occasions.
[k]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
So are these frozen treats of yours anything like the ones I made before? What are they exactly?
[k]

[charaFace D 15]

＠Ophelia
W-well...
[k]

[charaFace D 10]

＠Ophelia
Frozen treats, as the name implies, are basically food made by freezing something.
[k]

＠Ophelia
Ice cream is made by freezing a mixture of cow's milk, sugar, and sometimes chicken eggs.
[k]

＠Ophelia
Ice pops are generally frozen fruit juice.
[k]

[charaFace D 3]

＠Ophelia
They are both sweet and cold...
[k]

[charaFace A 6]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
Mhmm.
[k]

[charaFace D 11]

＠Ophelia
They melt in your mouth...
[k]

[charaFace A 8]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
Oh?
[k]

[charaFace D 3]

＠Ophelia
P-personally, I rather like them.
[k]

＠Ophelia
They are by no means foods necessary for survival.
[k]

[charaFace D 1]

＠Ophelia
But the sensation of a sweet treat melting in your mouth is...
[k]

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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Tell me more.
[k]

[charaFace D 10]

＠Ophelia
I-I do not know how to explain it...
[k]

＠Ophelia
But it feels wonderful. It's like a little moment of happiness...
[k]

[charaFace A 9]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
Happiness, you say?
[k]

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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Hehehe. Very good. This pleases me. I never expected to hear you, of all people, speaking of happiness.
[k]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
Mother is delighted, Ophelia.
[k]

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[charaFace D 6]

＠Ophelia
I am humbled.
[k]

[charaFace D 1]

＠Ophelia
This is just my own experience, but whenever I eat ice cream...
[k]

＠Ophelia
...it brings back things I've long since forgotten.
[k]

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＠Sigurd
Heh. You mean like a past fling?
[k]

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＠Ophelia
Wha...!?
[k]

[charaFace D 0]

＠Ophelia
Sigurd! Control yourself! And no, you are incorrect.
[k]

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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Oh?
[k]

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＠Ophelia
Your Majesty too? No, it is not like that!
[k]

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＠Ophelia
Whenever I eat ice cream...
[k]

＠Ophelia
...as it melts in my mouth, I am suddenly reminded...
[k]

[charaFace D 11]
＠Ophelia
...though in a hazy sort of way...
[k]

[charaFace D 1]

＠Ophelia
...of my youth.
[k]

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＠Sigurd
...
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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Interesting.
[k]

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＠
[lr]At that moment...
[k]

＠
...the queen did not ask her to clarify what she meant.
[k]

＠
She did not inquire whether eating these frozen treats brought Ophelia back...
[k]

＠
...to when she was still young and innocent.
[k]


＠
Instead, she just smiled softly and said:
[k]

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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Ah, that sounds lovely. Hmm, Ophelia...
[k]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
...if I were ever to taste one of these frozen treats of yours...
[k]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
...I'm sure I would think back on this world in its heyday.
[k]

[charaFace A 12]
＠Scáthach-Skadi
Back to when there were seasons, gods, and an Allfather watching over everything with his one-eyed gaze...
[k]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
Back when, if he smiled, Ēostre, the spring goddess, would dance to end the harsh winter and summon the new life of spring.
[k]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
I'm sure that is what I would think of... The age when the world overflowed with the gods' love.
[k]

[charaFace A 9]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
I'm sure of it. ...Well, runes cannot be carved into forms I have never known...
[k]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
But yes...
[k]

＠Scáthach-Skadi
One day, I would like to taste these frozen treats.
[k]

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＠Ophelia
...I swear to you. I shall provide some for you as soon as the Tree of Emptiness is in full bloom.
[k]

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＠Scáthach-Skadi
Very good.
[k]

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[charaTalk D]
[charaFace D 8]
[charaFadein D 0.1 1]

＠Ophelia
But then again...um, well, this is just my personal opinion...
[k]

[charaFace D 9]

＠Ophelia
...but I do not know whether the frozen treats will live up to Your Majesty's tremendous expectations...
[k]

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[charaTalk E]
[charaFace E 6]
[charaFadein E 0.1 1]

＠Sigurd
Very poetic, Ophelia. The skalds are no match for the words you've spoken here.
[k]

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[charaTalk D]
[charaFace D 2]
[charaFadein D 0.1 1]

＠Ophelia
Sigurd!
[k]

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[charaTalk A]
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[charaPut P 1]
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[wt 3.5]


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