The Last Supper - Taisho Roman Revolution

[idolpro]

[ The elevator lets you out into a private room: from the decor, it is doubtlessly an enclave of the restaurant you saw earlier on screen.

Your phones have filled with a rather sizable rule list. ]

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[bluerosestyle]

[he's staring]

[syncintohell]

[ between his arguing with Yasuragi, he eventually notices: ]

If you have something to say, I am listening.

[bluerosestyle]

Would you have a problem with me going out to attack whoever we choose so Maki and Yasuragi can rest?

[syncintohell]

Yes. There is no reason for you to dirty your hands, when Maki has more than proved competent.

[bluerosestyle]

What do you mean by "dirtying your hands?" They're hurt. I was okay with it at first, but letting Maki go a third time is... It's too much!

[syncintohell]

I meant what I said. You are not hurt, but you have not shown the aptitude. Willingness means little if you have neither readiness nor skill.

[bluerosestyle]

What aptitude?

[syncintohell]

Maki is an assassin, and is quite open about it.

If we are redirected, you do not know who you will be facing. Do you have the ability to take another's life in your hand, and end it for the sake of returning to us hale and whole?

[bluerosestyle]

. . .

Did you forget? Any of us can be called to fight, not just the person who goes out to attack. Are you saying you'd stay still and let a monster eat you?

[syncintohell]

That is utterly besides the point. May and must are not the same word. The one who must fight must be willing, and that you turned a blind eye to that shows only that you have not the stomach for it!

[bluerosestyle]

I said I'm willing. Much more willing than to let a unitmate go out when she's hurt for the sake of... I don't know. I don't get it. She may be an assassin, but that doesn't make her immortal!

To be honest, I don't understand any of this, I haven't understood what we're doing for a while now, but this clearly isn't about strategy anymore, so I don't need to shut up about it. If you think only someone who makes sure people know she's an assassin can fight, you're mistaken.

[syncintohell]

I am acting to end this. That is my only priority.

But you say you are willing: are you willing to face down whoever you may be presented with to cut down? Unless you can prove that to me, I am not allowing you to take the position. Why do you think I am not offering myself up! Do you think I am that enamored of sitting here safely, while others are injured in my place?!

[bluerosestyle]

I--

[BREATHE SOL]

...I don't need to prove anything like that. And I'm not asking for your permission either. I'm more concerned about what Maki and Yasuragi think, since they are the ones putting their lives on the line.

[syncintohell]

I am arguing Maki's position! She has not agreed to send you out either, or you would not be bothering to have this conversation with me!

[bluerosestyle]

I came here to ask why you might be against me going, since Yasuragi suggested he'd only agree to it if you did. Maki can argue her own position well enough.

[he certainly can't. deal. with her]

[syncintohell]

I told you why I am against it. That you do not like my answer does not mean I will change it for your convenience.

[bluerosestyle]

You know, when you asked me if I had the resolve to see Samira die for her ideals in the last game, I thought a lot about it... And I think you were right then. I didn't have the confidence to live with the possible consequences of going against other people who knew what they were doing better than I did. I looked up to you for what you said to her, because... I couldn't.

But-- here, in this, you're wrong. I don't want you to change your answer for my convenience, it's for theirs. I know I could handle this. And you've proven that you can't.

[syncintohell]

You know without proof. For all that I have proven I haven't the wherewithal— I may be wretched, but how much do you think is due to to the blood on my hands? I am not having you crack simply because you thought you could take it only to find the heat you were so certain you could take would singe you, leaving you brittle and battered.

[bluerosestyle]

I doubt there's anything worse than watching others die to "protect" me when I could be doing that for them. I-- I appreciate being cared for, but not because you think I'm too fragile to help. Not when I say I can do it but my word means nothing...

[syncintohell]

I am not certain of your fragility, but now is not the time to test it! You are merely an unproven element, while she is a certain one.

[bluerosestyle]

She's also hurt. At what point will we stop looking at her as an "certain element?" When she dies and we're forced to send out someone else?

I get that she wants to do this... But it's not right for us to agree to it at this point.