Maybe considering tvk?

[misplacedxsheath]

I would ask if you're serious, but I know better than to doubt your capacity for foolish decisions. Do you honestly think anything would come of this, or is it simply a thinly veiled excuse to rub in the fact that my faith was making me a mockery all along? Don't bother pretending...we both know that the only reason you want to send me there is because you enjoy the idea of pitting me against an organization you find amusingly similar to Ormus. Your idea of karmic retribution would be laughable if it weren't so idiotic.

Ahhhh yes...the URTV. You think I should meet the younger Kukai in person, do you? Of course you do. I'm not interested. I've seen enough of his brothers to know I want nothing to do with their kind. Just the fact that you seem to have a fondness for them is enough to make me question your sanity, such as it is. Now, give up your idiotic plan and leave this old fool to his rest.

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[namedforcat]

It is an interesting place, to be sure.

[misplacedxsheath]

These events and Shadows I've been hearing about, correct?

[namedforcat]

Yes, though your personality is lacking your combat skills are to be admired.

[misplacedxsheath]

Meaning you doubt I'll have trouble with the Shadows but don't expect me to make many friends, is that right?

[namedforcat]

At first, yes. But you're a commander, you know how to work people, and you will win some over eventually.

[misplacedxsheath]

You really do have some sense. I suppose there simply wasn't enough for all three of you.

[namedforcat]

It's just that I know how the military works. Ormus may have been religious, but they were still organized similarly.

[misplacedxsheath]

Your brother was all too willing to ignore that fact for the sake of smearing my name and irritating my men.

[namedforcat]

I don't doubt that. Albedo is very opinionated.

[misplacedxsheath]

And your other sibling didn't seem particularly interested in the capabilities of his enemies as long as they were in front of him to attack.

[namedforcat]

Jr. is just like that. But you would know that just as well as I. You've faced him enough times.

[misplacedxsheath]

You must be well suited to your purpose for one of you to be such a thorn in my side despite being incapable of using what he passes for a brain in combat.

[namedforcat]

I'm glad to hear he is so well praised by you.

[misplacedxsheath]

It's impossible to deny the fact that he was a serious problem for Ormus and cost us numerous good men. But his habit of underestimating his enemies or overestimating himself will be his downfall one of these days...my only regret about the way I died is that I won't be around to see him realize his mistake.

[namedforcat]

Says the man who exploded himself.

[misplacedxsheath]

I died on my own terms with my scores settled. Can the same be said of the man who sacrificed himself in a last ditch effort to make up for past failures and escape his fate?

[namedforcat]

You couldn't face defeat. I was making sure they weren't separated again, it wasn't about me, like yours was about pride.

[misplacedxsheath]

I accepted that Uzuki was my better, wounded pride over my defeat had nothing to do with it.

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[namedforcat]

Oh really.

Pffff. Margulis is a professional at being full of himself.

[misplacedxsheath]

I won't deny that it bothered me to lose once and for all, but Uzuki defeated my fairly and honorably. But with our score settled and Ormus revealed for the shame that it was, I had no further purpose in life. A broken, pitiful shell of a man without even the comfort of knowing that he'd accomplished something with his life...what further reason did I have to remain instead of following Pelligri to whatever fate awaits those who spent their lives blinded by pride and hubris?

[namedforcat]

Purpose is what you make of it, Margulis. It would have been interesting...to see the world after the UMN went down.

[misplacedxsheath]

That's easy for you to say, you realized you were being used when you were still young. I devoted my entire life to a cause that, in the end, spat me out like so much rotten meat. I would have rather died with my faith intact than live in the knowledge that my entire reality was a carefully crafted lie.

[namedforcat]

Only half way. The rest of it I didn't realize until much later when it was too late.

You died knowing the truth. That's better then dying in a lie.

[misplacedxsheath]

I died miserable and depressed...it would have been better to die for something I still believed in than to become the wreck I was.

[namedforcat]

A wreck you could have risen from. [Someone is not impressed by your sob story Margulis.]