breaks_destiny | 009th Shattering * Audio

[Filtered to: Minato, Minako Arisato, Hanyuu, Ami, Hughes, Elicia, Winry, Adell, Patchouli, Bernkastel, SOS Brigade members, Shiki, Neku, Grell. || Unhackable ~~70%~~ 100%]

[Actually the Arisatos and Hanyuu are a bit of an overkill to add to that filter since they should know already but just in case...]

Just a small heads up to the lot of you, not that it has happened that I can remember but... I won't be answering to any call through the journals unless it's filtered as high as you can.

Which means that, Elicia, you tell your dad beforehand if you want to call me for something.

[A pause.]

Actually if any of you have problems with filters or something just call for Souji instead, I'll answer if it's any of you calling.

[That sounded casual enough, right? Let's hope no one goes into too much of a question mode as to why he suddenly wants to be so secretive with the journals.]

[Filtered to Ami || ~~70%~~ 100% Unhackable]

Are you free to meet up and talk? [The library would sound good but he can almost imagine Takano there looking for information so... And the medical center at the battledome is as out of the question as anything that is related to medicine.] Does the lake sound all right with you?

[Filtered to Hughes || ~~70%~~ 100% Unhackable]

Hughes-san, where could we meet to talk? Alone if possible as I told you.

[Hopefully it won't be a place where Keiichi can imagine Takano around easily. Though maybe he's just being a bit paranoid.]

[Filtered to Adell || ~~70%~~ 100% Unhackable]

Oi, Adell, I think I heard around that you knew about one of those groups, Blue Rogues, I think? Can I ask you a few questions?

[Filtered to the Malnosso || ~~70%~~ 100% Unhackable]

I... I'm not entirely sure how to do this... Can I talk with... Catherine, I think it was?

[Sincerely he has not much hope, he has been out of things for a while and who knows if that guy hasn't been changed or whatever. But he won't lose anything for trying, right?]

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[If you were face to face he would be pointing to you, instead he'll be pointing at the journal.]

That's what I meant! After all time as I know it is nothing but a unit created by humans to measure the length of a day or a night and their own lifespans. But you are something beyond humans, right? You don't live in the same plane as us even if you can come and spend time on it, so to apply time to you is meaningless. You yourself said it just now, time is irrelevant to you, thus you're ageless.

So to say that you're 'old enough' for anything is stupid. And if linear time has no meaning for you then wouldn't it be better than rather than say that you have lived a lot of years, to say that you've experienced them?

[A pause.]

Ah, sorry, you know I'm just too stupid to try to comprehend at least something about you. Or to stubborn to stop trying.

[Either works, right?]

[A giggle. It's a giggle, yet not the type Bern normally makes. It isn't mocking or contemptuous, but actually a bit pleasant.]

The latter. [It's been a while since she talked to someone like Battler, but not as incompetent as that moron.] But stubborn types aren't bad. Only the ones who are stubborn accomplish anything in life.

[Probably because Keiichi has been long enough at Luceti to not reject the idea of witches, or maybe because even with being told the truth of his world he himself had something in the back of his head nudging. Anyway, without Luceti he would have never faced directly the idea of a witch so it would have never mattered much.

Keiichi smiles a bit at that.]

Yeah, at least as long as they listen and think properly, right? Being too stubborn and not thinking or listening doesn't accomplish anything good... But I suppose that accomplishing something bad is still an accomplishment.

[Just not one anyone would desire... At least not him.]

May I ask you something? Have you been traveling through fragments since you were... Well, since you started to exist?

[If witches are ageless then the concept of being born doesn't fit with them either, right?]

Yes. From the moment I was created I traveled through the Sea, in search of fragments that could relieve my boredom. Why do you ask?

Wait, created? Uh... Well, I suppose that even witches have to have a source somewhere.

[Okay, moving on.]

I was just curious, have you ever spent a long human time in a fragment? Ot has none been able to entertain you for that long?

Why do you ask?

Just curiosity as I said. It's probably a stupid question anyway, and it's probably stupid that I think of it... But I can't stop imagining you going from one fragment to another, trying to find the end of your boredom, and I can't help but think that it must be horrible to never find one capable to entertain you a lot even if it's just in human years that mean little to you.

[He scratches his head.]

I mean... Boredom is awful by itself. I know that when I got bored it was as if just everything lost sense, and trying to find a distraction and failing made it feel as it I was trapped or even asphyxiating in boredom or something. And for me those moments of huge boredom didn't last for that long in retrospect. But you have been like that since you began to exist so... From my perspective at least, it seems horrible.

Boredom is the greatest of poisons for a witch. If you want to kill a witch just put them somewhere where they can't do anything at all and they'll likely beg to die.

Edited 2010-11-09 22:14 (UTC)

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You're not bored here, right?

[Yep, he sounds worried. Yep, he probably shouldn't but, really... Then again why does he feel surprised? He was almost saying that himself already, what did he expect? Her to deny it and say that boredom isn't bad for her? Then why would she travel around to try to kill boredom, genius?]

If I was you would know.

[Right now? She isn't. Thank Takano and Hanyuu for that - their very presence has made things around here 100% more interesting.]

[A chill runs down his back at that. Somehow he has the feeling that she wouldn't be letting him know by asking him to play cards or something. Still...]

I'm glad, since we're stuck here the least that could happen is that you won't be bored.

[A pause. Well, as they say he already is in the 'no' scenario and it can't hurt to ask, right?]

By the way, Bernkastel... You think you could teach me how to do better filters?

[She thinks. Normally she would tell him to do it himself, but if he was shielding himself from Takano then it might be better to teach him. Even if from their conversation Bernkastel already deduced that Takano was taken before the end of another gameboard. Whether it be the final one or not though...]

Fine.

[He wouldn't have been surprised by a negative and wouldn't have taken it badly, but really this is far better, obviously. Have a, possibly annoying, bright smile for you.]

Awesome! You won't regret it, I'm good at learning when I put effort on it!

[Which... She probably knows as it was a constant in all the gameboards for him, at least this time it's something he wants to do and doesn't do for praise or stupid reasons.]

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