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[stirtheblood]

You can try texting Vicious if you want.

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[stirtheblood]

Oh, sure. But I'm already pretty great.

[derailer]

There is room for improvement.

[stirtheblood]

Oh yeah? What do ya think I should improve on?

[derailer]

Do not say it like that. I realize my comment was flippant, but this is not a matter of saying you "should" improve. Your life is your own, and self-improvement is not a matter of obligation. It is a matter of direction.

But I suggest you begin with self-awareness.

[stirtheblood]

...Hm. Well, s'true I've missed on that a few times.

[derailer]

And, if you begin in that direction, you do not need to rely on the words of other people to choose where to go next! You can be aware of it within yourself!

[stirtheblood]

Without other people I don't got that much to be aware of, though. I don't rely on other people, but there's no point existin' in isolation. They're what makes it interestin'.

[derailer]

Hmmm, I suppose...

Is it only people that you find interesting?

[stirtheblood]

Fightin' can be interestin' too. And drinkin'. I dunno that I got a lot of awareness missin' there, though.

[derailer]

Oh—no, I am only asking out of curiosity now. Fighting monsters, do you mean?

[stirtheblood]

Ehn, depends. A lotta monsters are actually kinda boring to fight. But if you get a bunch of them or they're particularly tough it starts gettin' excitin'.

'Course, fightin' people can be fun too. Or gods.

[derailer]

Mmm.

[can't really act scandalized about fighting gods,]

I am curious, because... I did spend a lot of time "alone," in Hisui, but I was surrounded by Pokemon for much of that time, so it did not have the same lack of stimulation, as lonely as it still was.

[stirtheblood]

...Well, I do got enforcers or monsters tryin' to kill me basically all the time. Knights and stuff sometimes too. So it ain't exactly a total lack of stimulation.

[derailer]

It is not really "fun" if they are so actively hostile, though...

[stirtheblood]

Sure it is, long as they're some kinda challenge. I'd be in a lotta trouble if I couldn't have fun while facin' hostility.

[derailer]

...True enough.

[He will concede this.]

[stirtheblood]

...Was still pretty lonely, though.

[a big concession from Vicious]

Way more fun watchin' Kanata and the rest of 'em fight 'em off too.

[derailer]

Are they very talented at fighting?

[stirtheblood]

They are now. 'Course they've gotten a lot stronger usin' their blood sins.

[derailer]

"Blood sin?"

[That sounds a little bit sketchy.]

[stirtheblood]

Huh, guess I ain't told you about those before? Normally when someone's condemned as a transgressor, they get taken out by the enforcers pretty quick. But if they meet me, and they can own their sin, I can let them use it as a weapon. My guns're mine.

[derailer]

...This sounds somewhat similar to the copies of us that appeared the other day... Though, I do not think any particular sin or crime was required for those. And if the card is meant to be a weapon, I have not at all figured out how to use it, yet.

[stirtheblood]

We ran into somethin' called Truesight Stones, before. They show everyone their true inner self, or whatever, kinda like what happened here the other day. That ain't quite the same as gettin' a blood sin, but it did upgrade 'em. Maybe the card's just an upgrade for later?

[derailer]

I do not have anything in particular to upgrade. ...But, I do feel better having addressed such issues head-on. So I think I can be satisfied with only that.

[stirtheblood]

Oh yeah? What issues were you addressin'?