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"Then do what you must to soothe your own mind, as long as you keep your eyes on the people you can still protect."
Shef and SakurakoMinato just stares at them with an absolutely deadpan expression.
This won't be a hidden blade, but even a sword at your hip will need sharpening, refining. The tiredness doesn't seem to hold, what does hold however is fear, intimidation. Your Requiem attacks both the body and the mind, the body with compulsion, the mind with fear, and it just so happen your foe, running on pure instincts, is while refusing to feel tired is still quite intimidated by the effect regardless.
Minato
"I have no idea then."
"Tell me. Will cutting your hair bring him back? Will it have made you do things differently? Your gesture might appeal to your sense of honor, and I won't tell you not to do it, but it won't change the fact of what happened."
"What happened, happened. You can't change it. There's no point in dwelling on what you did wrong, because you can neither divine the future nor change the past. If you focus on your failure, you'll falter and fail and regret it more. So don't beat yourself up because you think your own personal flaws caused his death. His death isn't on you, and if you let every death that happens on your watch weigh on you, you'll never get out from below it. Focus yourself on the Princess. She's still here."
"Call me harsh or hate me for that if you will, but we have prayers and requiems for the dead. It's our job to protect the living."
"....a haircut. In these conditions?"
"If we can find somewhere for her to rest here.....this is an utter mess."
"I see. Alright then. I'll get it to Roux, see if she can recall the bandits. I wish you the best of luck."
"Alright. ....by the way, I've been meaning to ask. Are things....alright with you and Sharne?"
"...that has....troubled me of late. I know very little of tactics or waging war.....but throwing those bandits to their deaths.....I wasn't quite sure that was the best way to go about it. Still....I've been considering some alternate method to deal with them since we got them. Have you told anyone else?"
"We should travel quick and talk to nobody. Until we're definitely sure who we can trust, assume everyone is the enemy or might well be working with them."
