o12 [Written]

[ahappylie]

It would seem that everyone has been getting letters? I'm seeing all sorts of buzz over this - over who this Tyr person is, over whether or not it's a trap or our only option to be free. So many people are talking about staying, but I have a question.

Who is going to go?




[Filtered to Shinpachi Nagakura | pretty much hackable since he fails]

Nagakura-san? Have you received one as well? What do you think? A chance to go home or a trap?

Comments

[bigbluehat.livejournal.com]

Oh nothing like that, no.

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

Oh, good. So long as it isn't anything like that then.

[bigbluehat.livejournal.com]

I simply... had a meaningless existence.

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

...

I don't think anyone has a meaningless existence, Sasarai-san. In some small way, we all affect our world.

[bigbluehat.livejournal.com]

As nice as that is to say, it does not quite apply to me.

...

Okita, I am not a "person" in the traditional sense. I am, instead, a construct.

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I don't understand. Why would a construct not be a person? You certainly seem like one to me.

[bigbluehat.livejournal.com]

I am comprised of artificial materials, Okita.

I'm not human. I am a clone, of sorts, of another person entirely.

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

[He doesn't understand these things, sadly.]
I don't see the difference between you and another human. What does it matter what you're made of, if you're you?

[bigbluehat.livejournal.com]

...

I was created merely as a vessel for a True Rune. My life, my rank, and my purpose within Harmonia were all a well-constructed nest...

Is that clear?

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry... Does it bother you that much?

[bigbluehat.livejournal.com]

It... is complicated.

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

I see. I'm sorry for prying.

[bigbluehat.livejournal.com]

No, it... feels better to say it, really.

Here I have a purpose. Here I feel... human.

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

You've always been and will always be human to me, Sasarai-san.

[bigbluehat.livejournal.com]

... Thank you, my friend. Thank you.