ｏｎｅ。 ａｕｄｉｏ。

[repudiationist]

[ There are a few slight moments of silence - perhaps, if you listen closely enough, you can hear some slight sounds of nature from the forest's edge in the background - before a girl speaks up with a quite deadpan (and calm, considering the situation) tone. ]Am I being reduced to this again this soon already? I really must be popular with all of

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[kakeravoyager]

[...Wow, they actually showed up together. Not sure how she should feel about this.

...Oh wait. The last time she saw Ange was when she made her blow herself up. Okay she knows exactly how to feel about this.]

To be mentioned in such a way; I'm quite honored Ange.

voice;

[repudiationist]

[ fml. She expected some witch to show up, but it still isn't pleasant. And it just had to be Bernkastel out of all of them. But that doesn't mean she's just going to lose her cool or deadpan like that. ]

It's only natural, right? It doesn't matter whether I'm trying to jump off a rooftop or stuck in some foresty area with wings, you're usually near. Maybe I'm actually the one who should feel honored.

voice;

[kakeravoyager]

To be granted a miracle by me is a wonderful honor in itself. Ah, but mentioning that ancient relic with such a flat tone...I wonder. Tell me, what was the last memory you can recall?

voice;

[repudiationist]

Yeah, it sure is a 'wonderful honor'. [ n o t

She ponders whether or not she should tell Bernkastel for a moment - after all, why would she give the witch more information to use against her? But then again.. It's not like she has anything in particular to lose by saying it. ]

I know what happened up to the sixth game. [ That's vague enough, let's go with that compromise. ] You didn't think I'd just sit still after the fourth, right?

voice;

[kakeravoyager]

Of course not. If anything, I expected that someone to bring you out of the toy box. We stored what was left of you for another time, but that old hag sneaked in like the nosy person she is.

Don't worry, you're going to like what comes next. I invited you to the 7th game's finale. You really enjoyed seeing it's conclusion. [She cackles.]

voice; 1 / 2

[repudiationist]

Oh, the two of you are acquaintances? I can't quite see you and her discussing mystery novels over a cup of tea yet though.

voice; 2 / 3 i lied

[repudiationist]

[ That second part actually makes her pause though. Because she knows that if Bernkastel says something like that, she actually means the opposite. She doesn't need that cackle there to realise that.

She swallows hard and continues on, still trying to keep the same tone. ]

voice;

[repudiationist]

What, there's going to be yet another game? Didn't onii-chan and Beatrice have their happy end at the end of the sixth? [ Ange probably sounds a little bitter over that because wow, onii-chan, didn't you promise to come home.. ]

voice;

[kakeravoyager]

["Happy end". Just hearing the phrase makes her want to throw up a little.]

That story is a mystery, not a romance. Nothing was resolved. [She smiles a little.] For the record, Featherine was the one who asked me to be the Game Master of that board. She wanted to see the answers in the cat box to see if they matched with hers.

voice;

[repudiationist]

Sure, I'd like to see the end of the mystery, but from the way you talk about it I oddly feel less and less like it.

So just reading all of it wasn't enough for her? That woman was a little annoying, but aside from that I didn't mind her all that much. But.. anyone who decided to appoint you as the Game Master must have a really bad sense of humor.

voice;

[kakeravoyager]

If you think I'm bad, know that she's even worse. The one who taught me how to drag the guts out of a story, digging my way into the very depths of the heart and then crushing it in the palm of my hand. [She laughs lightly.] That is the sort of person Featherine Augustus Auaurora is. You really don't know who to side yourself with, Ange.

voice;

[repudiationist]

[ Dangit, she trusts Bernkastel as far as she could throw her, so she doesn't even know what to think about it when she says that.. ]

Maybe I just have a terrible sense of judgement. It's more like just the fact that that sort of people keeps gathering around me, even if I have no clue why all of you seem to like to me so much. I wouldn't mind at all if you all just gave up and went to bother someone else for once.

voice;

[kakeravoyager]

We only bother you because you asked to be bothered. You're the one who wished for the miracle, right? Stop complaining, Ange. Isn't this what you wanted? To learn of the wonderful world of witches with your dead cousin, so that your family would come back?

Moan all you want because you put yourself in this endless cycle of repeating tragedies. I just pushed you in when you asked me to.

voice;

[repudiationist]

Weren't you the one who twisted it around in the first place, that miracle you promised me? ... Actually, yeah, that one was my fault. I should have realised what you meant from the beginning what you meant with your words.

I can't even say I mind it all that much. After all, from the moment you first found me I was already planning to jump. I just thought I could at least make myself useful for my family before I would die.

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[kakeravoyager]

[It's at this point she puts up a filter. Not because she wants to hide, but rather because this is something only for Ange to hear and her alone. So she wants the girl to listen very closely.]You asked me for two things. To bring your family home and to show you the true culprits. The first one I cannot do for you. No miracle will bring them back to you nor to any Ange Ushiromiya. The 7th game proved that. However, the second one I granted for you at the end of that 7th game. I even told you in red that it was true

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[repudiationist]

[ As much as she has still been reasonably calm up to now - sure, Bernkastel's very presence is enough to make her feel nervous, comfortable, but she has still been able to maintain her poker face fairly easily - this is where Ange feels the rage and fear and a whole other slew of emotions she can't quite make out well up in her gut. She struggles to maintain her usual facade, but it isn't quite working as well by now anymore. ]Shut up.. I don't owe you anything anymore. You promised me something and for that goal I became your piece for a while without complaints. But all of that ended when you discarded me at the end of the fourth game! Sure, I was greedy, I wanted to see my family return to me.. but by now I've realised you can't help me with that. No miracle in the world can. So I don't have any sort of business with you anymore. I'll find my own way, my own truth. I don't need help from witches with empty promises and who are only out for their own entertainment