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[After a practice run, Ren leaves their unit's cockpit - and looks up, at the training TSF Fubuki and the sky above it.]
If I recall correctly, first generation TSFs had a pilot life expectancy of only 8 minutes. And that's with veteran pilots, who had a lot of experience using fighter jets. How regrettable...
But to think technology advanced so much since then! When cornered, humans are capable of pushing themselves to incredible limits. Individual persons, and humanity as a whole.
[Ren's gaze returns to the ground level. Still with that omnipresent smile, the horned person adds...]
However, I don't think that's always a good thing.
[2, aimed at people with (possibly offscreen) CR]
Heey!
[Already waving from a distance, a familiar face approaches.
And it looks like Ren got a new haircut. A change of style?]
What do you think?
[After a practice run, Ren leaves their unit's cockpit - and looks up, at the training TSF Fubuki and the sky above it.]
If I recall correctly, first generation TSFs had a pilot life expectancy of only 8 minutes. And that's with veteran pilots, who had a lot of experience using fighter jets. How regrettable...
But to think technology advanced so much since then! When cornered, humans are capable of pushing themselves to incredible limits. Individual persons, and humanity as a whole.
[Ren's gaze returns to the ground level. Still with that omnipresent smile, the horned person adds...]
However, I don't think that's always a good thing.
[2, aimed at people with (possibly offscreen) CR]
Heey!
[Already waving from a distance, a familiar face approaches.
And it looks like Ren got a new haircut. A change of style?]
What do you think?
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And I'll make sure to bring Mark to your place. He doesn't have a lot of free time but I pretty much have to do it, don't I? I mean, how could I not.
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[She gives Ren a slight smile.]
...I know you're not big on that predestination stuff, but I didn't inherit the title "Star of Chaos and Calamity" for my good manners.
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Sarah, if it's not too big of a secret - could you tell me?
What were you doing before you worked together with the knights?
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And yes, I have both time and inclination to listen. Even if the story in question is not happy. Such is life.
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...I guess, if I were going to make it into an anime, it'd start on the day I met that talking hedgehog.
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We fought against the various dark creatures that were trying to take over the city, but it wasn't long before we met the other heir to the Western Kingdom's legacy; Lien Xiaohui.
[Sarah looks off into space for a while, silently.]
-I'm sorry, do you mind if I smoke?
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This is only just beginning and it already shapes up into quite a story, Sarah.
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[She snaps her fingers in front of the cigarette, and a small flame lights it. It takes a good thirty seconds before Sarah starts the story again.]
Lien was...cool. Rich transfer student, smart, and beautiful too. Her powers were different; less direct, more tricky, and with an ice theme to them. Our ancestors had been an equal match for each other, hers being the greatest strategist in the Western Kingdom, mine the greatest warrior.
She got popular real fast. I was pretty jealous at first...but we got to be friends as we fought together. It was our secret, something nobody else had.
[Her smile fades as she looks off into the distance.]
...I wonder, when did the problems start...Was it Percy? Or the doctor...
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I'm sorry for having little to say for now, Sarah. But I assure you, the audience is captive.
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So, the Dark Kingdom's M.O was pretty basic. They'd take objects or animals, infuse them with some dark energy, let the now super-powered monster run wild. Occasionally they'd send out giant dudes, and that's when Tiankui and Tianji came out.
Eventually, they started doing the same thing with people. The transformed people were like they were before, just...with the barriers on their desires pulled off, and superpowers to boot. Most of them went around trying to murder, steal, that sort of thing. Anyways, we couldn't purify them or anything, so we just ended up killing them.
The doctor...God, what was his actual name...Hanneson? His "desire" was, above all else, to save the children in the cancer ward where he worked. So he invented this machine that could drain the life force from one person to help heal another, and started feeding the homeless to it. It couldn't loop for infinite energy, but one grown adult was enough for five or six kids to get from death's door to the point where they could recover on their own.
[Sarah makes a long sigh.]
Anyways, I executed him and broke his machine, and Lien didn't like that very much. We had a pretty big fight about it, and it was right around when Percy showed up...
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[Ren's gaze lowers.]
I didn't suspect I'd talk to someone who actually had to go through it.
It was always hypothetical, an estimation of a real life situation.
Do you wish to know what I think about it?
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No.
Even if you were to kill one to save a whole world, to save the whole universe - that is not the right thing to do.
Human lives are not currency that can be traded and weighted.
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[Asked so innocently.]
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...Sorry, I've gotten rather off track, and talked your ear off to boot...Mind if we finish this some other time?
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But, I don't mind at all. In fact, this conversation let me understand you better, Sarah. Thank you.