ercnerd | Catch-all: Claude

I don't know about that . . .

You don't think you're innocent?

I'm a six-hundred-year-old human. Can anyone be innocent for that long?

Is it wrong to believe in miracles?

Hm . . . I suppose it isn't.

But I wouldn't call myself a miracle worker.

Well, a human being 600 years old is unlikely enough.

If anyone could manage to be innocent for so long, it would be someone already an anomaly.

You have a way with words. I don't know any immortals who can claim innocence after having lived for so long, though.

I wouldn't know, you're the first I've ever met.

[ stares ]

Am I? Does that mean you've never met a dragon before?

Well... I didn't realize she was a dragon at the time.

Didn't she have horns?

No, she looked like a normal woman. Except then she turned into a giant dragon.

They do grow quite large.

That shouldn't make me the first immortal you've met, then.

Perhaps not, but you are the first one I've had a relationship with.

. . . It's true that I've yet to meet a personable dragon.

Have you encountered a lot of them?

I once fought the Spirit Lord of Fire and Ice in Purgatory. That was a while back. More recently, I encountered the Spirit Lord of Ice, who was something of a difficult character.

So you've hunted them.

I didn't hunt them so much as they picked a fight. I didn't kill either of them.

Is there a reason they took issue with you?

[ HMMM ]

The Spirit Lord of Ice was just arrogant. The prison master of Purgatory, though . . . You could say that we were on opposing sides.

Have you been fighting for 600 years? Sounds exhausting.

I don't fight every day. If I did, I would've died from exhaustion in the first year. It's just when monsters and other troublesome entities get in my way.

That still seems like a very long time.

[ Sighs. ]

I've been alive only 23 years and I'm tired of it.

Oh? Are you still embroiled in a war back home?

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