soul_campaign | 2. May 21

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2. May 21 | audio

[Private to Minako Arisato]

Hey, how've you been? Said I'd come check up on you sometime. Everything okay so far?

[Public]

Seems like some people use these communicators more for whining instead of actually getting useful information.

I'm looking for someone who'd be willing to spar with me using swords.

And if it's about this then you can forget it. I won't be responding to any complaints regarding that post of hers.

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I'm starting to think that maybe you're just like me. Not that that's a good thing. Yeah, you've already made yourself clear on that. You won't see me chasing after you for being a national threat. That's all in the past.

It's not so bad here. No, I'll try to stop people from becoming killing freaks. That's why my sword of justice exists. It might not be that cruel here, but it's still war. The psychological effects it has on people and the violence. Those still exist here.

I once thought that I could leave the battlefield and enter into a normal life, but it's as you say. That kind of world isn't for us. We're meant to be on the battlefield.

Is it possible to defy your nature?

I told you the same when we first met. You took it as an insult. But I'm thinking that you're starting to see that it isn't... it just is the truth between us.

War is the cruelest parent, but it has its purpose. [ All he really has to say on that subject. ]

There's nothing wrong with that, though. There is always gonna be battles, always going to be wars. We leave one war and battle to face this one. It's the same everywhere. The violence won't stop, and so there needs to be men who can live forever on the battlefield so others can sleep at night. I wouldn't say that those others are that great, though, since they consider themselves privileged and consider those who have to live here something to pity rather than something to feel humility towards. Because if it wasn't us, it'd be them. No need to pity your shield, your sword.

It isn't. We're made up of the memes of nature, and only the ones that are the strongest will live on within us. To defy those that survived this long would be no better than denying that they exist, because they're always there. Always present, and can never be removed. So no, it is not possible. All you can do is lie to yourself.

Don't get me wrong, I still think you're fucking batshit.

There's just some facts that I can't exactly bring myself to deny now that the Winds are gone.

You could almost say that war is part of our nature. Are memes all you ever talk about?

I wouldn't dream of it. As for the state of my mind, well, there's no reason to go into it.

I can talk about other things, but it felt like this was the piece of information, of chatter that is the most important for the here and now.

You're just messed up. How about that?

Perhaps. Going straight to the most important pieces of information helps save me waste my time from listening to pointless chatter.

If you need to put a name to it.

And so we've achieved the goal of avoiding pointless chatter.

Sounds about right.

I'm done talking to you. Got better things to do than to sit around chatting with an EX member of Desperado all day. [Hangs up.]

[ Well, he expected that. It happened a lot later than he thought that it would have, though. ]

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