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Keeping a secret

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Hmmm...

[Izuru is wandering around looking absent-minded. No, this is not because of his unit's severe damage. Or even because of what he saw during the mission.

It's because as soon as he returned home, Captain Suzukaze and Commander Simon both immediately briefed him and told him not to share this news with anyone. That the Wulgaru commander looked like a human... why keep this a mystery?

He doesn't know. And he doesn't look okay with it.]

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Hey...

[But Izuru's state of mind doesn't last for long.]

Do you know anything about repairing electronics? I was trying my hand at it but it's harder than I thought.

[It seems he found something to do. But what is it?]

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It can ride around... and clean things.

Are you trying to fix that cleaning robot Leos stole?

Maybe...

What do you want to do with it anyway?

Leos reprogrammed it so the cleaning staff doesn't want it anymore. They say it's easier to just buy a new one. Isn't it sad?

It's also double sad after Major Kagura stomped it into pieces. It's absolutely miserable!

It's just a tool, Izuru. If this was one of those AIs that talk and think, I'd understand, but this is just a cheap automatic robot. It's not alive.

I know, but it felt alive when it was chasing Leos around like that...

Ask Suruga, okay? He won't put any guns on it if you work together with him.

I can only hope.

I heard my name, what's up?

[...Where did he even come from?]

Ah, Suruga!? I didn't know you could sneak up on people like that!

Nobody expects the Suruga Inquisition!

[...Oddly proud of this, he is.]

So again, what's up?

Eh?

[Reference status - not get.]

Oh yeah, I was wondering, can you repair tech devices without turning them into bombs or guns?

Speak of the devil.

And come on, Suruga, you can't be an inquisitor. Are you even Christian?

What do you take me for, some kind of obsessed nut?

[...Don't answer that.]

So what needs fixing? Datapad? Game console?

... Flattened robot.

...That's... a bit beyond my expertise...

[Really, there's a reason they have pit crews.]

Ah, but I don't mean like, a robot you pilot Suruga!

Just a small, tiny cleaning bot. That was stomped by a slightly bigger, Kagura-sized bot.

Oh. Well... how badly was it damaged? I mean, is it mostly intact, or...?

A lot of the parts are really... crunchy. But I think we can save some of them.

Probably.

Edited 2014-09-07 18:29 (UTC)

Izuru...

[And yet, he'll actually go along with this. Maybe he likes a challenge.]

I'll be in your debt Suruga. Really.

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