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[aurous]

Please be realistic. My responsibilities lie with Val and the shop, and yours in your academics. Neither of us can afford to have our attentions diverted elsewhere.

Besides, you couldn't possibly send me somewhere. Not in good conscience! Jillas and Gravos — they'll protect him with their very lives. Of that I have no doubt. But they... They're... [ somewhat incompetent, if their scoreboard over the course of the series is any indication...

A-HEM. ]

In any case! I belong in the shop and you belong, well, wherever it is you are! This shouldn't even be up for debate. In fact, it isn't.

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[trollsdragons]

[All of the smugface ever. All of it.]

Well, well, it seems you can learn to not react with violence! I'm impressed~.

[aurous]

[ That sound of a crack echoing throughout the universe is Filia's mental composure. ]

Xe- Xe- Xellos! [ Give her a second...

Okay! Smiling! Pretending like this isn't the most foulest piece of foulness to ever greet her. ]

When it comes to speaking with humans, I find them to be more sensible than Monsters.

[trollsdragons]

[Oh, he caught that bit of being off-guard. Yesssss.]

Ah, still got that air of superiority, I see.

[aurous]

[ "Still"? An odd word choice, she thinks. ]

Like you're one to talk, Xellos.

[trollsdragons]

Well, of course. The Mazoku are the superior race, after all~.

[aurous]

Superior in all the wrong ways.

[trollsdragons]

All a matter of perspective, Miss Filia~.

[aurous]

[ A small pause. ]

Not all. Some.

[trollsdragons]

Well, your perspective is a bit skewed there~.

I'm sorry, she called to me

[juushinkan]

And yet, here you are! Don't worry, I'm sure you'll do just fine in a game.

much to her dismay

[aurous]

[ Assurance? From him? Perish the thought! ]

Of course I'll do fine. That isn't the point.

[ Really, though, Filia. That should have been "I'd", not "I'll". ]

She has a sign on her in neon that says TROLL ME PLEASE

[juushinkan]

The point is just how laser breath proof the unfortunate game in question is. Should I warn them in person or would a written letter do it?

it must rest inside that hat of hers when not in use

[aurous]

-!

The only warning an "unfortunate" game requires is if you'd be there, which would be a moot point since you'd be the one to make the game "unfortunate" in the first place!

It comes out with little fanfare music and ribbons

[juushinkan]

Now there's no need to get personal, I was only voicing concern, considering your past track record with cities and blowing them up.

[Or was that just a you and Lina thing? Concern trolling is the best trolling!]

I think it's a perfectly valid point.

[aurous]

That-! That was only once, and it was entirely your fault!

[ Pause. She needs a recovery here. ]

But if filthy, raw garbage could just take the hint that no one wants it around, well, the level of unfortunateness in the whole world would drop dramatically.

[juushinkan]

So, you're just going to blame me for your terrible disposition?

[aurous]

One could hardly make a sound judgment of my character based on my dealings with a Monster.

[ Of which, in a perfect world, would be none. ]

[pink_dragon_spooker]

You do realize that's not how these sorts of things work, right?

I mean, I don't even get to use my real name where I'm at. Do you think I didn't try to talk my mun out of that?!

[aurous]

Not use your real name...? Are you working undercover?

[pink_dragon_spooker]

... Something like that. Though I have to deal with a weird bunch of opponents.

[aurous]

[ If Filia knew about Lina's adventures before the fall of the Monster's barrier, "weird" would have had a more potent meaning. As it was, the closest thing she could draw for comparison was that ghost ship...

:|a ]

In what way?

[pink_dragon_spooker]

Like the fact that I died 300 years ago and I'm back as a semi-not-dead spirit who gets to fight several others in the name of getting a wish.

[aurous]

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Now you're the ghost?!

[ Then... ]

Mister Gourry...?

[pink_dragon_spooker]

Sometime between 300 years ago and now he probably passed on.

"Probably" because someone may want to app him in and then we figure out a workaround.

[aurous]

[ The whole group, then...

Well. The whole group minus Lina. And Xellos.

Time for subject change! ]

S-So, then. This wish. What would you wish for?