[taigen is out there getting cucked from all angles, actually.]
I am sworn to kill his business partner. A man named Abijah Fowler. He was, of course, inclined to stop me from doing so. Fowler makes him so rich, he tried to bribe me with 50,000 ryō.
And I assume the bribe didn't work at all because you don't seem like the type to be bought. [ and good for mizu, frankly. ] But why exactly were you sworn to this?
I have no interest in money. Only satisfaction. [which is to say...] There were four white men in my country at the time I was born. Abijah Fowler is one of them. I will kill him and his ilk for my mother... and myself.
The other two. [ she does not mind the correction. ] I assume then the answer is to take care of them the way you did the first one. And what you'll do to Fowler.
I suppose so. [ contentment is okay. ] But I also think if you're going to be alive and on Earth—or whatever you may call your planet—you owe it to yourself to fight for exactly what you want, and the best of it.
What I want is my revenge. I will either have it, or god will see me again sooner than they hoped. Whatever comes after that is... a bonus, as far as I'm concerned.
What exactly is your revenge for? Abandoning you and your mother? [ mizu mentioned it was revenge for the both of them, but she's curious what exactly was done. this is her just being nosy. ]
Abandoning? No. [making a face like just the idea of being a happy family with those dudes is horrible, actually. gross.] They've been hunting me down to kill me my whole life, just for being one of their bastards. I'm returning the favor.
Oh. Then that's not revenge, that's getting ahead. [ OKAY. she does not condone murder, but that feels more like self-defense to her. ] See, this is where context really does matter.
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... what do you think? Coming with me to see?
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A short walk, near the exit. The mirrors make it a pain to navigate. Disorientating.
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... should I take that to mean you've been in here more times than you'd like?
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[and then they step inside the mirror maze and immediately get smacked with a memory.]
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[ but then this is happening, and she pauses. watches this. looks at mizu. watches this. ]
... don't tell me that's what led to you being here. Was he right and it was an ambush?
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No. I wouldn't meet my end until the following spring.
[it's fine. this mizu still has a few more months to live.]
There was no ambush. Only tea, and five hundred archers lying in wait in case the negotiations went south.
[it doesn't count as an ambush if they're upfront about wanting to kill you? very sane thoughts from mizu.]
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It seems negotiations went fine then. But what were they for, exactly?
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He wishes.
[taigen is out there getting cucked from all angles, actually.]
I am sworn to kill his business partner. A man named Abijah Fowler. He was, of course, inclined to stop me from doing so. Fowler makes him so rich, he tried to bribe me with 50,000 ryō.
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And what are you going to do about the other three? Are you going to do anything about the other three?
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a hum and a shrug.]
Perhaps I'll make my way back to my master's forge and take up blacksmithing again.
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Do you think that would make you happiest? To accomplish all of that, and then return to where you were before?
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What I want is my revenge. I will either have it, or god will see me again sooner than they hoped. Whatever comes after that is... a bonus, as far as I'm concerned.
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What exactly is your revenge for? Abandoning you and your mother? [ mizu mentioned it was revenge for the both of them, but she's curious what exactly was done. this is her just being nosy. ]
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