[ ramiel has been standing around at the outskirts of the lantern rite celebration, mostly just observing and monitoring. making sure those fireworks get used responsibly. wondering where the fuck this glitter and the rats came from. it's fine.
but eventually she does duck into the mirror maze. hello, mizu. ]
... Did you mean to be here or was it the doors again?
[ because ramiel gets the impression that neither this nor the party were mizu's scene. ]
Knowing how expansive Heaven is without any problems, I think it's safe to assume that everything strange happening here has been coming from the same source. We just need to... find it.
[ said with some frustration because. easier said than done and they have been tryingggggg. ]
The building wasn't on fire when I went in. [sometimes... fires happen later...] I told him to wait outside while I found a man I am sworn to kill, but he didn't listen.
A white man. One out of four who were in my country around the time I was born. He and his ilk have been hunting me down as one of their bastards since the day I was born.
[HELP i guess she can also get the non-abridged version. mizu sighs.]
He's a foreigner. And foreigners are banned from entering my country. It's the law. All of the white men were driven out decades ago, before I was even born... Or that's what was supposed to happen. What the law says and what the shogun allows out of greed are two very different things.
To put it simply, my very existence is proof that Fowler and his business partners were allowed to continue their operations. Trading in opium, weapons and flesh. They've made the shogun a very, very rich man.
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week 3, wednesday
but eventually she does duck into the mirror maze. hello, mizu. ]
... Did you mean to be here or was it the doors again?
[ because ramiel gets the impression that neither this nor the party were mizu's scene. ]
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The doors.
[on both accounts, honestly. mizu is so tired.]
Do you know why that keeps happening? You enter one room and find yourself in another area entirely.
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[like, murders aside... also talking to her, but already walking off to start looking for the exit at the same time.]
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Knowing how expansive Heaven is without any problems, I think it's safe to assume that everything strange happening here has been coming from the same source. We just need to... find it.
[ said with some frustration because. easier said than done and they have been tryingggggg. ]
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[but we're interrupting this plot talk so ramiel can witness the best character in mizu's canon... behold. ringo.]
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[ but luckily you don't have reassure her on this because woah, memory time. why does she immediately relate to this obnoxious guy. ]
Your friend?
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I wouldn't call him a friend.
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[ because you aren't. ]
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He was, the last time I saw him.
[there is just the slightest itty bittiest hint of concern in mizu's tone here.]
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I hope that he still is...
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If he listened to me, he should be. But he was far too close to where I died.
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Though I don't really know how you died to begin with.
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Why did you need to kill that man? Who was he?
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[this is the abridged version.]
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[ like she is capable of grasping bad circumstances as a concept but this is not enough information!!! mizu!!!!!! ]
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He's a foreigner. And foreigners are banned from entering my country. It's the law. All of the white men were driven out decades ago, before I was even born... Or that's what was supposed to happen. What the law says and what the shogun allows out of greed are two very different things.
To put it simply, my very existence is proof that Fowler and his business partners were allowed to continue their operations. Trading in opium, weapons and flesh. They've made the shogun a very, very rich man.
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So they see you as "evidence" that needs to be disposed of?
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