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[excaliburden]

USERNAME: caster Altria Caster Fate/Grand Order TEXT • AUDIO • VIDEO • ACTION • OVERFLOW

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[fanstheflames]

Not exactly! Unless someone lives a really chaotic life normally...

You okay, though? Not too overwhelmed?

[ Altria's Really Been Through It. ]

[excaliburden]

I'm okay! [Probably? Probably. Gotta check in with herself. Hmmm..............]

... Yep! I think I'm okay! I've got you and Yuu, after all!

[fanstheflames]

Me and me?

[ ... Sorry. Give her a minute. She'll get it. ]

[excaliburden]

Ah--you and. Yuu! And Mr. Hat Guy Yuu, I mean!

[wow that is confusing isn't it]

[fanstheflames]

Ohhhh.

Right! I didn't take him for the fussy kind of guy, but he's really stepping it up!

[ Good job, sir! ]

[excaliburden]

Really?

[She tilts her head at that, expression curious.]

He's fussy all the time. I thought that he was that way with everyone.

[fanstheflames]

Not that I've noticed.

[ And she notices quite a bit. ]

[excaliburden]

... Huh... really?

[again. Altria, you already said that.]

... Why not?

[Why would he only be fussy around... her....?]

[fanstheflames]

Well, I... can't really say, since I don't know all that much about him...

[ Like. She can make an educated guess, but... ]

1/3

[excaliburden]

[................... just her?




just




just her?]

2/3

[excaliburden]

[..............................]

3/3

[excaliburden]

Ha ha ha, don't be silly, Tsuruno! It's nothing like that!

[she didn't

say anything, Altria.]

[fanstheflames]

Nothing like what?? Altria, are you okay?? Do you have a fever?

[ Hello??? ]

[excaliburden]

N-no, it's fine! It's nothing like, you know! He's not! Um!

[UMMMMMMMMM]

It'snotlikehe'streatingmespecialoranything.

[fanstheflames]

[ give her a minute to parse that. ]

... Um.

Are you sure about that?

[excaliburden]

[no]

W-well... He's... not that kind of guy... probably...?

[... Thinking about everything he's done for her and everything he's said--it leaves her heart thumping, and makes her not so sure, but... but...?]

Besides, it's... me, you know?

[fanstheflames]

I'm not sure what that means.

[ Frankly. ]

Isn't it because it's you?

[excaliburden]

[... It makes her really happy to think it's because of her. But...]

But I'm not the sort of person who's allowed to have something like this.

[It's said perfectly matter-of-factly--a fact of life, not an opinion.]

So even if it's because it's me, I... I just--

But, um... it makes me really happy too! To think that it could be... because it's me.

[fanstheflames]

[ Her eyebrows scrunch together, lightly. ]

I don't really get why you're not allowed to have something like that. Especially here.

[ If she's not allowed, it has to be a home situation, doesn't it? ]

[excaliburden]

Because...

[She looks away at that, expression pinched, even though she's still smiling.]

I'm the Child of Prophecy. I have a role that I need to accomplish. I'm not the sort of person who's supposed to have love.

[fanstheflames]

Does having love interfere with that role?

[ ... what a title, wow. ]

[excaliburden]

... Yeah. I think it kind of would.

I think it kind of did, before.

[For Aesc--wasn't it love that caused her to fail? Love for the faeries which was shattered, love for Britain itself that led her astray.]

[fanstheflames]

...

I don't wanna... really say that "think" isn't good enough. [ Because it's never that simple, is it? ]

But that doesn't apply as long as you're here, right? We don't know what'll happen when we get out of here.

[ If they'll ever see any of these people again. ]

[excaliburden]

... So you're saying...

... Even if it's just for a little while, it's... okay?

[... But... wouldn't she just be betraying him? Just like he was before, when he was left behind?]

[fanstheflames]

As long as the other person's okay with it. It's definitely something you'd need to talk about.

But no one lives forever. So I think, with the time we've got left, we have to make the most of it. You know?