if and only if...

[gambler_of_luck]

I have three objectives to do now, it seems

Comments

[nyahichigo]

Balthier-chan? Are you troubled with all the crime in the city, too?

[gambler_of_luck]

Ichigo! Long time no see.
I am glad you are safe in the middle of safe chaos...

You uneasy as well?

[nyahichigo]

Heh, yeah! I've been busy with school. It almost feels like home...

I... sort of wish I wasn't.

Yeah. Balthier-chan, did you have superheroes or... important saviors in your world?

[gambler_of_luck]

I am glad. I know your studies shall do you well in the end.

Superheroes you say?

Well...
There is nothing super about my friends and I, but...we did decide to become such saviors for Ivalice to free our world from the constant wars that plagued our world so.

So yes, I do know some very important saviors.
Fate knows how much I misses the rest of my comrades these days...

[lone_holmcross]

That's exactly right... You can't move forward if you don't accept the past.

[gambler_of_luck]

I am glad you agree. I was worried that everyone would be driven to madness, Rudy.

[lone_holmcross]

I'm worried too. I don't understand why all of this is happening so suddenly...

[gambler_of_luck]

...I have one idea but I am not very sure how right I could be.

But...it's a theory at least.

[lady_caterina]

I dread what the dawn might bring.

[gambler_of_luck]

Do not dread the dawn, my dear.

Welcome the new day and embrace it with open arms.

You should never fear what tomorrow may bring.

[lady_caterina]

Even if the dawn is overcast?

I feel it in the air; a storm approaches.

[gambler_of_luck]

Why fear tomorrow? I welcome every single living moment, good or bad.

Do the same.

Yes, I sense it as well...

This be the calm before the storm.

[letc_kenm]

You're leaving? Aww, don't leave Balthie! Things will be boring!

[gambler_of_luck]

Oh? My presence around here leaves a certain factor of fun, does it?

[letc_kenm]

Of course silly! You're one of the few fun guys around here, and we still need to go out for like, um, food and stuff!

[gambler_of_luck]

Then how about we head out now?
Hell, I am growing bored with all the serious talk around here.

Let's just have some good clean fun, this time without your shirt magically lifting up...

Mhm?

[embraced_dark]

Balthier. Just thought you might be interested to know that I'm back to normal now. It's been a fair while, I think.

[gambler_of_luck]

Well now, what do we have here?
Jackie! Oh, now this is surprise!

Glad that you are back, I've been worried perhaps you've died wouldn't be returning anytime soon.
The Darkness told me that you out of commission for awhile...

It was not kidding!

Welcome back, a shame you have returned in the middle of such chaos.

[embraced_dark]

The Darkness can shove his theories. What's been happening, I'm unfortunately not too well informed today.

[gambler_of_luck]

Well, for one...
There is a crime wave here in Lumiere now!
Robberies, murders, bulgary, you name we got it!

It's a shame, though.
Such a paradise has become a common world now!
Well...

That is if you consider *ghosts* to be common here.
Yes, we even have ghosts haunting this fair metropolis now!