Catch-all: Sakyou

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[The complimentary words softens the mood. The rudeness, on the other hand, breaks it completely as Sieghart makes a face.]

Didn't we just establish that age has nothing to do with it?

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[This is Sakyou, showing off his inner shithead as a sign of appreciation. Isn't Sieghart lucky?]

Mm... I was thinking to make an exception in this case, but I have the strangest feeling you wouldn't appreciate it.

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[He feels cursed.]

Ugh . . . if there's one thing that doesn't matter, it's my age, so just forget about it.

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[Is this why he died. To escape the curse of knowing Sakyou.]

Ah... [WHY DOES THIS "AH" SOUND SO KNOWING. He just nods. Why is he nodding?? Don't worry about it.] --I really do mean it, though. Thank you. ...Though I wish that no one here had to share an understanding over matters of revenge.

[There are so many of them though... there are so many revenge lads here...]

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[Stop nodding.

Mercifully, Sakyou changes the subject and Sieghart is all too eager to follow suit.]

. . . It can't be helped. What's done is done. All that's left is to do what we can.

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[He will, but the spirit of nodding will live forever.]

I suppose that's how it often is. That's why so many of us are stubborn, most likely.

[He's going to look back at this conversation and hate it!]

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Stubbornness is how things get done. If I didn't stick to my beliefs, I'd have given up a long time ago.

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It's the same for me.

[UNSURPRISING. They are the same person, after all.]

Though it does make me think of what Hanayagi-san said... About stubbornness working against us.

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That only happens when you're too rigid. You should always stick to your core principles, but there'll be times when you have to adapt to what's happening around you; otherwise, you'll set yourself back.

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[Sakyou, a person who's too rigid, sweating:

He looks like he's considering that, though.]

So it's a matter of balance. ...Well, I suppose nearly everything is, in the end.

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[Learn to be flexible, friend.]

Nearly, but not all. You need to draw a line somewhere. If you always strive to compromise, you'll just become a pushover without a ground to stand on.

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[He will be inflexible until he perishes. Someone kill him.]

I don't think that will be much of a problem for me personally, at least.

[His compromising skills need work. His teamwork skills in general need work! Sieghart saw that firsthand, wrow.]

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[Sieghart very nearly throttled Sakyou then.]

Your problem is that you don't know when to let go. You could've avoided death the first time around if you'd stopped wrestling with that guy.

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[STOP HE WAS LOCKED IN A BATTLE WITH A VAMPIRE.]

It's fine; it likely saved you all the trouble of being pursued by someone who was quite physically strong and could have probably called for backup.

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Claude's a fast runner. Did you see him? He was gone before any of us.

But I shouldn't complain too much. We all got out in the end.

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You aren't wrong about that...

[EVEN HE HAD TIME TO NOTICE HOW FAST CLAUDE NYOOMED. God bless.]

In any case, it feels like a bit of a fluke that we did, honestly, but I won't complain about it either.

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Flukes are half the reason anything happens in our lives. We should count ourselves lucky that the pocket watch worked as it did.

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Yes... It would have been a bigger mess without that. Though I feel we would have done what needed to be done, as well.

[This wholeass group absolutely would have murdered if they felt it was necessary.]

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Hmm . . . I suppose we would've.

[But he wonders as to the fallout of that path had they taken it.]

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[They just all permadie and go straight to the graveyard.]

...No use in lingering on it though, yes? [A sigh. He looks back up... toward the underwear........] I suppose someone should fetch that, too. [...] I'll leave it to Claude-dono.

[The fact that he's assuming Claude is behind this somehow and he doesn't even know it's Claude's underwear.]

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Why him?

[Why does everyone pick on Claude?]

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He always seems involved in these things somehow, even if he doesn't want to be.

[It's very funny actually.]

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[He stares at Sakyou.]

It's because of that kind of attitude that he keeps getting involved!

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Perhaps he should give it a try? Not having the sort of face that gets a person involved in troublesome situations, that is.

[His inner rude shit so rarely hops out but damn if it isn't doing that right now.]

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Wow . . . You kids really are something.