[004] [Audio]

[amannomore]

To the staff and guests of Holloway's Keep, I trust you are well.

Though some are yet to return from their expedition, those that have brought with them a prize. This man, freed from his prison before schedule by a small team of nosy individuals has since been re-instated as a member of staff.

His sentence is served, his freedom regained, but his leash shall remain short. Bother him not with your questions; he cannot answer.

You may call him Change. He will be taking on the role of Tailor in the Keep.

Do make him welcome.

Comments

[Audio + Translated Text]

[fuckinstoplights]

[He knows that voice, too. Except now it's nice and translated.]

What crime did he commit?

[Audio + Translated Text]

[amannomore]

He aided a fugitive. That is all you need to know.

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[fuckinstoplights]

How so? What fugitive? When?

[Quit while he's ahead? Never.]

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[amannomore]

You ask too many questions, Kagerou.

[There's your warning, mister robot.]

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[fuckinstoplights]

...

[SOMEONE SPEAKS HIS LANGUAGE WHAT.]

I want to understand what happened. Is that so wrong?

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[amannomore]

[Isn't it nice to have someone to talk to?]

This is something you simply do not get to know. It is my role to maintain security in this Keep and to that I will hold.

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[fuckinstoplights]

How does my understanding endanger security?

How are we to follow your laws if we aren't aware of them?

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[amannomore]

An idea is a weapon, Kagerou. You cannot kill an idea. Only silence it.

[There's a pause. Duran makes a thoughtful sound.]

Of all that you've asked me just now, select one question. I will answer truthfully.

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[fuckinstoplights]

[A pause of his own.]

... What idea did this fugitive have... that you wished to make silent?

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[amannomore]

No. I said one question of what you'd already asked. That there is a new question entirely.

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[fuckinstoplights]

[More silence.]

What fugitive.

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[amannomore]

A girl.

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[fuckinstoplights]

I see.

And that's all I'm going to get, isn't it.

[Audio | Japanese]

[amannomore]

It is already more than you should ever know. Take what you have and be content, Kagerou.

[Audio | Japanese]

[fuckinstoplights]

Hn.

There was a time that I was content with what I had.

That time passed.

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[amannomore]

What is it that you seek? What brings this discontent?

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[fuckinstoplights]

What is it I seek?

Nothing anyone here can give me.

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[amannomore]

How would you know?

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[fuckinstoplights]

Because what I want isn't in anyone's power.

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[amannomore]

[Duran chuckles.]

Such certainty.

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[fuckinstoplights]

And you have such certainty that I'm wrong.

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[amannomore]

I merely suggest that you underestimate the situation you are in.

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[fuckinstoplights]

I know nothing of the 'situation' I'm in. But I do know it isn't possible for anyone to give me what I want.

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[amannomore]

In time, you shall see. That is all I can say, Kagerou.

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[fuckinstoplights]

If you are so certain you can give to me what I want, then tell me. How is it you mean to accomplish it?

When you don't even know my desire?

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[amannomore]

I simply know what is possible, and how far the realities of that stretches.

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[fuckinstoplights]

... You aren't able to change the past. Or alter time.

That's impossible.

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[amannomore]

Hm.

[It's not a question.]

You have walked the halls of the labyrinth, vanished for months from this place where only hours passed for you, and you suggest there is no way to alter time?

Tell me, what then is it that occurred?

[Audio | Japanese]

[fuckinstoplights]

Then you can slow it. Pause it.

None of that helps me.