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?

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[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'd think they'd fit right in there.
[And he's sitting down finally, taking a page from his journal and drawing a traditional Japanese cafe down on the paper - complete with a little piglet sitting in one of the seats like a customer.]
These are the sorts of rest areas I'm used to. We have benches instead of chairs and a raised area here with tatami mats where people can sit down and have a real meal.

[nicht-ein-traum.livejournal.com]

[He smiles in amusement at that.]

Ours is more like a bar, I suppose. [And he draws a row of tables with long chairs, and sloppily designed men having fun.] It's not a cafe so much as a beer hall, at least.

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

Oh! I see...

[He looks at the drawing for a bit and then tilts his head at Alfons.]
What is beer?

[nicht-ein-traum.livejournal.com]

It's an alcoholic beverage, though I don't suppose they'd have that during your time.

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

In my country, people drink sake - alcohol made from rice. I've...heard of beer before, I think, but it's something the foreigners brought with them.

[nicht-ein-traum.livejournal.com]

Beer would be a more powerful alcoholic drink then, or at least ours was.

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't know. I try not to drink. It does terrible things to me.

[nicht-ein-traum.livejournal.com]

Oh?

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

Have you ever been drinking?

[nicht-ein-traum.livejournal.com]

Only when I need to. Winter gets very bad in Germany, and it helps boost body heat.

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

Winter in Edo was fairly bad, too, but I usually just ate warm things instead.

I'm impressed, Alfons-kun. I didn't think someone so young would be able to drink so early.

[nicht-ein-traum.livejournal.com]

Well, it was more of a necessity really. Beer was cheap enough to drink regularly as opposed to getting a better heating system back at home.

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

Oh~ I see.

Is firewood and such expensive then, in your time?

[nicht-ein-traum.livejournal.com]

Very much so.

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

So the future has many problems too, then... That's interesting. We always thought things would get easier and cheaper in the future.

[nicht-ein-traum.livejournal.com]

Maybe even further than ours, as we were suffering from the effects of a war.

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

...it seems that so many of us are from war.

I wonder if there will ever be days of peace again.

[nicht-ein-traum.livejournal.com]

It seems like a common theme, don't you think?

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

A common if unfortunate one.
[He sits back in his chair and looks around the cafe, lost in thought for a few moments.]
...It was nice for a bit. To experience days like these.

[nicht-ein-traum.livejournal.com]

Are you sure you want to return? [Because that reaction wasn't exactly very common.]

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

I must. My friends are standing on the battlefield without me. The person most important to me is unprotected while I am here. My men are waiting for me to give them orders.

...No one will tell me what the future brings, but I have a feeling I already know. And I must follow it through to the end.

[He smiles faintly and touches his side where his sword should have been.]
I wish to be with them, until the end.

[nicht-ein-traum.livejournal.com]

... [Why the hell can't Alfons bring himself to stop them, he wondered. Really, this was the second person willing to return to his own possible demise.]

You've made up your mind then?

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

If I don't attempt to return home, it will be a failure of the Code.
[He lowers his hands into his lap and drops his gaze to the table.]
If Nagakura-san goes, then I would be abandoning him. I can't not go, Alfons-kun.

...
[He seems like he was going to say something else and then decided against it.]

[nicht-ein-traum.livejournal.com]

... What is it?

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

Nothing at all.

Did you ever finish your rocket?