PC: Mizu

[trifocal]

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[purities]

It seems...

[a pause.]

Impractical.

[sure, let's go with that.]

[trifocal]

[ a small laugh. ] Do you think so? You get used to it, really.

Although, there are some who even eat and drink with their masks on... I don't think I can manage that.

[purities]

But it limits your peripheral vision, no?

I'm sure you can learn to eat and drink with it, in time. But how would you fight?

[trifocal]

Why would I need to fight?

[purities]

Do you think you'll never be in a situation where you have to?

[trifocal]

[ uh

well

she nods?? yes, actually? ]

I've never had to fight anyone in my life.

[purities]

And you think that will be the case forever?

[trifocal]

Well... my life has already ended, so...

[ yes? ]

[purities]

And yet, nothing is preventing you from getting hurt again. The afterlife won't protect you from such things.

[trifocal]

I don't mind. I have no need to return, with my duty already completed.

[purities]

Your duty?

[trifocal]

To serve as a sacrifice to the Dragon God, that our island may be saved from calamity.

[purities]

And you're so certain that it worked, that you're willing to stay dead?

[trifocal]

[ ... ]

It would only confuse and distress everyone if I returned after completing the ritual.

[purities]

That sounds like their problem, not yours.

[trifocal]

What? [ she sounds a little scandalized at that. ] But... their problems are mine...

[purities]

Why?

[trifocal]

My life's duty is to help my people. Not only to protect them from calamity, but to ease their anxieties and lift their hearts. To cause them distress would be a betrayal of everything I've lived for.

[purities]

Sounds like you're just a slave to them.