On the new rerun volumes, a newspaper article and having been played off-character.

[shakespearealien]

I frankly do not see why that essay on my race is upsetting you to the point of tears. That, as an Evronian, I am destined to never know happiness should not come as any news to you. You should also know that I am far from being the exception, regardless of everything that has occurred in my life, of the poetic appeal of such a delusion and of the fact that I may actually have a chance if, and only if, I tried.

As for the section of that essay whose content is entirely and completely new, id est, the history of our planet. I think it is the final and definitive confirmation that nothing about the Empire was ever as noble and glorious as that boisterous double of mine insists that it was.

Speaking of which, I share your disappointment at that newspaper article. By confusing our two stories, what the author did was equating the hero to that... Galaxy Guardian, therefore also implicitly superimposing myself with my double. I despise that notion, and I am certain that he feels the same way.

Unrelatedly. I would have known what dango was, or who Mitsunari Ishida, Hideyoshi Toyotomi and Ieyasu Tokugawa were. My interest in Earth's culture is not limited to the Western world, I'll have you know. Yours, on the other hand... Ah, but it is quite alright - you will do better next time.

- Branch Chief Gorthan

Comments

[shakespearealien]

Very well. But what that purpose is - have you discovered it yet?

[nomon_be_spared]

« I have chosen to aid my fellow clones. »

[shakespearealien]

Are they in as much pain as you were?

[nomon_be_spared]

« They were seen as nothing more than tools, as I was. Though humanity and freeborn Pokémon are no longer my enemies, still they do not understand us. I will not allow myself or my kind to be used by them. We will live free lives, unbound by Pokéball or human will. »

[shakespearealien]

What about the... freeborn specimens belonging to the same species as the clones? Are they accepting? You seem to imply that they are not.

[nomon_be_spared]

« It would be dangerous, to have freeborn and clone interact. The clones are exponentially more powerful than their natural-born brethren, and to introduce that could taint that natural evolution. »

[shakespearealien]

I see. So the clones received genetic enhancement as well, just like you did.

So you do not want them interacting. And yet, you feel they deserve normal and serene lives that should not be plagued by the constant memory of how they came to this world... How do you reconcile those two aspects?

[nomon_be_spared]

« We leave, to find our own home away from the world of man. I have already built such a place ... and ... should the clones choose to leave it, their power will readily see them through the storm that surrounds our home. They may leave if they wish, despite the danger. »