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[charaSet A 1098163800 1 Kasuga-no-Tsubone]
[charaSet B 5030001 1 Scheherazade]
[charaSet C 6014001 1 "Mata Hari"]
[charaSet D 98110000 1 "Yagyu Tajima-no-kami"]
[charaSet E 10003000 1 "Sessyoin Kiara"]
[charaSet J 5009000 1 "Effect Dummy"]

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＠Kasuga-no-Tsubone
I'm impressed by how many stories[sr]you know, Lady Scheherazade.
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＠Kasuga-no-Tsubone
And the expert way you tell them would easily give Lord Hideyoshi's famous storyteller a run for his money!
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＠Scheherazade
I could say I only learned how to tell stories well because it was essential for my survival...but the truth is simply that I've always loved them.
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＠Kasuga-no-Tsubone
I see. I used to tell Lord Iemitsu...or rather, Lord Takechiyo, as he was known back then, a number of stories myself.
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＠Kasuga-no-Tsubone
Momotarou, Issun Boushi, Urashima Tarou... Stories are an essential part of any child's moral upbringing.
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＠Kasuga-no-Tsubone
...Wait. Th-those people aren't among[sr]your companions too, are they...!?
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？1：Not so far.

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？2：We do have a westernized Kintarou and Shuten-Douji, but that's about it...

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＠Kasuga-no-Tsubone
W-Westernized? Sakata Kintoki, one of the Four Heavenly Kings, is westernized? What in the world happened to him!?
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＠Mata Hari
We've been wondering that since he showed up...
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？！

＠Scheherazade
I would love to know more Japanese folk tales. I may have mentioned this earlier, but I was actually studying them when all this happened.
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＠Scheherazade
There are a great many stories from the Tokugawa era.
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＠Scheherazade
In addition to Abaren-Boy Yoshimune...
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＠Scheherazade
...some of the more famous ones include Mito of Chirimen and Echizen the Ruler.
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＠Scheherazade
Of course, I also know stories[sr]about you, Kasuga-no-Tsubone.
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＠Kasuga-no-Tsubone
Y-you do? Really?
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＠Kasuga-no-Tsubone
Oh gosh, I'm not sure what to say to that. Part of me would love to hear them, and another part would rather do anything but...
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＠Kasuga-no-Tsubone
I'm not a fearsome general, or even an ordinary warrior. I'm just the shogun family's wet nurse.
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＠Kasuga-no-Tsubone
Oh, I just had a thought. If there are even stories of me, there must be dozens upon dozens of stories about the legendary Lord Yagyu Munenori.
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＠Yagyu Tajima-no-kami
...I am told that the Edo Yagyu have[sr]been gone for hundreds of years.
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＠Yagyu Tajima-no-kami
Mitsuyoshi appears to have far more fame in the modern world than I. Nowadays, the name "Yagyu" is synonymous with the one-eyed Yagyu Jubei.
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＠Yagyu Tajima-no-kami
Truly a delightful turn of events, is it not?
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＠Kasuga-no-Tsubone
I can't tell if you're genuinely happy about[sr]this, or just masking how upset you are...
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＠Kasuga-no-Tsubone
Ugh, this is what I hate about dealing with you enlightened swordsman types. I can't tell what you're thinking!
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＠Kasuga-no-Tsubone
I know that implicit communication was important even in the Ooku, so I get why it would be even more important in politics, but still.
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＠Yagyu Tajima-no-kami
I cannot say I have ever knowingly communicated solely through implicit means...
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＠Kasuga-no-Tsubone
You'd think you guys could at least be more emotionally open with your family. Well, I would hope, at any rate...
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＠Kasuga-no-Tsubone
...Huh?
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＠Mata Hari
Damn. Another dead end.
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＠Sessyoin Kiara
Perhaps that table clock missing its hands we saw earlier was actually some sort of key after all?
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＠Kasuga-no-Tsubone
There was also a pillar with a hole back there that looked like you could fit something inside.
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＠Mata Hari
You know, at first I thought my eyes were just playing tricks on me because it seemed so out of place here...but didn't we see a piano with the keys missing, too?
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？1：Nah, it's got to be the statue with the missing jewel eyes.
？2：Nah, it's got to be the mural with the missing puzzle piece.
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＠Kasuga-no-Tsubone
Gaaah, this is so frustrating! At this point, I'm ready to start stealing everything that isn't nailed down!
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＠Sessyoin Kiara
I understand how you feel.
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＠Sessyoin Kiara
However, I'm quite certain that Kama designed this floor to be easier to navigate the more one steals.
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＠Sessyoin Kiara
That being the case, our best bet may be places that afford easy opportunities to steal, or where stealing might have many obvious benefits.
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＠Scheherazade
Understood. Just say the word, Master,[sr]and I will tell as many stories as needed.
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＠Scheherazade
I will not stop until we have[sr]gained everything we seek.
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＠Scheherazade
...I first began telling tales in a closed-off world[sr]of night not unlike this very Ooku labyrinth.
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＠Scheherazade
From the beginning, my stories have always been meant to find a way out of seemingly hopeless predicaments...
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