Audience - Mizu

[holyspirits]

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[hotfixer]

Nnnnno. That's new.

[purities]

Something else that's broken, then. Will this realm hold itself together long enough to make it to our judgement day?

[like, murders aside... also talking to her, but already walking off to start looking for the exit at the same time.]

[hotfixer]

[ she'll follow along, since they're talking. ]

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. ]

[purities]

Of course. But we're already almost halfway through the program. It does not bode well.

[but we're interrupting this plot talk so ramiel can witness the best character in mizu's canon... behold. ringo.]

[hotfixer]

I know. I'm sorry.

[ 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?

[purities]

[mizu looks so exasperated after watching that memory, but there is also a hint........... of fondness? whoa.]

I wouldn't call him a friend.

[hotfixer]

What would you call him?

[purities]

Someone with very little survival instincts.

[hotfixer]

Is he still alive?

[ because you aren't. ]

[purities]

[LOOK... LISTEN...]

He was, the last time I saw him.

[there is just the slightest itty bittiest hint of concern in mizu's tone here.]

[hotfixer]

[ she is realizing that probably mizu was keeping him alive if they would say this. hmmm. ]

I hope that he still is...

[purities]

[sometimes... your sweet friend keeps trying to run into danger with you despite having zero training.......]

If he listened to me, he should be. But he was far too close to where I died.

[hotfixer]

So you're worried maybe he didn't listen.

Though I don't really know how you died to begin with.

[purities]

A fire. The building collapsed while I was still inside, I believe.

[hotfixer]

And he might have been inside too? Why were you in a burning building?

[purities]

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.

[hotfixer]

[ HUH. ]

Why did you need to kill that man? Who was he?

[purities]

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.

[this is the abridged version.]

[hotfixer]

Why would they want to hunt you? I don't understand.

[ like she is capable of grasping bad circumstances as a concept but this is not enough information!!! mizu!!!!!! ]

[purities]

[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.

[hotfixer]

I see...

So they see you as "evidence" that needs to be disposed of?

[purities]

Yes. Though I do not know whose "evidence"... They will all share the same fate regardless.

[hotfixer]

If they were all there as part of the same bigger problem, I can understand why.

[purities]

They are. Regardless of what they may be to me, they all deserve to die.

[hotfixer]

Sometimes that's how it is...

[ she is biased and just assumes mizu is very in the right without more details. ]

What did you intend to do afterwards?