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[cultivatingsin]

What's the worst thing that has ever happened to you?

[Please, go into detail. Hearing about the misery of others is a bonding experience for him.]

How did you handle it? Did you get revenge? Could you get revenge?

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[garyoutensei]

All you're accomplishing is making yourself sound like a creep.

[cultivatingsin]

I'm a creep for wanting friends? Rude.

[garyoutensei]

I don't think normal people make friends by asking them about their dark pasts.

[ She really needed a drink. There's sounds of her fishing around for her sake jug. ]

[cultivatingsin]

So I'm not normal either? Wow, you're just brimming with compliments!

[garyoutensei]

I'm the generous type, I guess.

So before I answer anything, I want an honest answer as to why you wanna know any of this.

[cultivatingsin]

Must be!

I guess I haven't had an easy life. If I find someone who has gone through something similar, maybe we could be allies.

[garyoutensei]

[ That, at least, seemed more earnest. Easier to stomach.

She finds her jug, the sound of it uncorking with a hollow popping sound, before the swishing of liquid and a small clearing of her throat. ]

Before I was even born, the home of my people had been completely wiped out at the beginning of the war... so I was living in a refugee colony, like all the other Japanese were, when those things attacked...

[cultivatingsin]

Those things? You must be tough to survive a war. Can you handle a sword?

[He can't imagine a more perfect weapon, honestly.]

[garyoutensei]

I learned to use one after there was an attack on my colony.

[ There's... a long pause here. Absolute silence. Not the sound of her drinking, barely the sound of her breathing. ]

They took everything.

[cultivatingsin]

Bastards. Have you seen any sign of them here? I'll help you cut them down for good.

[Jiangzai is good for that~ His little disaster.]

[garyoutensei]

[ A small huff. ]

Neither That Man, nor any of those monsters called Gears, are present in this world, near as I can tell, but even if they were, I'd refuse.

This is my path. I walk it alone.

[cultivatingsin]

What if I attacked them before you could stop me?

[He is now being childish.]

Being alone isn't good, you know.

[garyoutensei]

Tch. Spare me that kind of talk, I've heard it all before.

I'm a half-dead wraith. I'm beyond caring what's "good" for me.

[cultivatingsin]

Are you telling me you died?

And then came back.

For revenge?

[garyoutensei]

[ Another pause, this time the sound of her throwing back some of her drink is heard. ]

Whatever was left of that girl that survived the attack can hardly be called a fully alive human being.

[cultivatingsin]

Sooo...

It wasn't a literal death. [He has lost interest.] Ever thought about talking about it with someone?

[garyoutensei]

I don't care about any of that. All I care about is killing That Man.

[ Literal or figurative, there was no mistaking the tone of how she said that... It certainly had the earnestness of someone with nothing left to lose, and a sincere belief that she had nothing left to gain. As "dead" as an allegedly "living" person could get, one supposed. ]

[cultivatingsin]

Is That Man here? Or will any man do? I won't be inviting you over for sweets if you say yes to that second question.

[Yeah, he gets that. He was willing to do what it took to kill the man who butchered him, too.]

[garyoutensei]

He's not here.

[ Which was basically her primary reason for supporting their collective goal. She had work to get back to. ]

[cultivatingsin]

So you get a breather and a chance to decide how you want to kill him. I'd say draw it out.