Catch-All for Valvatorez

[specialdog]

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[omegathree]

I'll take you at your word.

By the way, have you received any messages from the dead?

[specialdog]

[ You know with most people she'd at least try to come up with some casual deflection to let herself decide if she wants to answer that now or later or with the truth or a lie, but with Valvatorez she feels like she can get away with just immediately asking: ]

Have you?

[omegathree]

Not yet, but I've sent two messages and I'm waiting for answers.

[specialdog]

What sort of stuff are you asking them?

[omegathree]

What kind of information they've been giving out and to who.

[specialdog]

What I would ask is where they're getting that information, and if we can trust it.

[omegathree]

Hm... And of the people who are dead, who would you ask that?

[specialdog]

Whoever sent me the message I got.

The message that said "This whole thing isn't going to end until there's one single survivor."

[omegathree]

[He sighs. So that's how it is.]

Any ideas on who would send that to you?

[specialdog]

Whoever sent it said they don't know who they're rooting for, but that they didn't want me to get hurt. So... Maybe Kazuaki-kun?

[ And if so... Boy is Kazuaki gullible... ]

But I don't know.

[omegathree]

You knew Kazuaki better than I did before he was killed. If it came from him do you think that information is at all reliable?

[specialdog]

I don't think he would lie. But I think that he would believe and repeat someone who lied.

[omegathree]

Have you tried to contact him since you received that message?

[specialdog]

No. I don't know what to say.

[omegathree]

[... Val nods.]

It does seem difficult to respond to.

Have you told anyone else about it?

[specialdog]

Julius.

[omegathree]

I didn't know you two were so close.

[specialdog]

Hehe! We're friends...!

I like him a lot.

[omegathree]

I'm happy to hear you've been making friends, lass.

[specialdog]

It almost seems like it's easier when I'm not trying.

[omegathree]

I believe this is the time I should say "be yourself."

[specialdog]

[ . . . ]

Who else would I be?

[omegathree]

I have no idea. I've just read it in some human books.

Aren't people always themselves? ... Corruption notwithstanding.

[specialdog]

Then it isn't very good advice, is it?

[omegathree]

Hm... I suppose I can't disagree. I've never been anything but myself.