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[neverendingbeat]

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[It's enormous, large and red, across the front of the Master's hoody. The Master leans in conspiratorially toward the camera.]

Guess.

[He laughs helplessly, his skull flashing through his skin once, quickly, like a blue x-ray. The video is the first one he's done in daylight yet. It seems to be at the side of a path in Xanadu. Eventually, he

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[sword_boy]

Hmm.. Guess... Are you a master-less man?

[neverendingbeat]

Yes.

[sword_boy]

Ah, don't worry. We can find someone who will take you on as an apprentice. I won't let you keep yourself in such a medieval set of thought.

[ooc; tsurugi-mun apologizes for let his history major take over this conversation...]

[neverendingbeat]

Oh, very kind of you, I'm sure, but I don't need a master. I am my own Master.

[sword_boy]

Oh? ...and what field do you hold mastery in, may I ask?

[neverendingbeat]

Ha, now that would be telling...

[sword_boy]

Aww! You take all the fun out of this!

[neverendingbeat]

My mastery isn't in direct answers. Not right now, anyway.

Isn't imagination more fun~?

[sword_boy]

But this curse is all about knowing what the letter stands for. I don't want to imagine it!

[neverendingbeat]

The curse is all about thinking you know what the letter stands for. Manufactured guilt.

[sword_boy]

Maybe... but even so, the meaning of the letter is supposed to change over time, going from a sin to a virtue.

[neverendingbeat]

Is it.

[sword_boy]

I forgot... you're not human, and therefore didn't have to study literature at some point in your life.

The piece of literature that this curse seems to be alluding to involves a women committing a "sin" within Puritan New England once, and being punished for that. She wears the badge so long, that many stop associating it with her earlier sin, but think of it as a badge showing her virtuous nature.

Although with the nature of this City, I'm not sure if the City inspire this curse or if it was other way around.

[neverendingbeat]

This won't last more than a day, though. And I'm very sure that nobody here has any misconceptions about my "nature". Or they shouldn't.

[sword_boy]

You never know, it may only last one day, but the memory of it, that won't fade anytime soon.

[neverendingbeat]

Good. People won't stop calling me the wrong name.