Absence makes the heart grow weaker.

[secretlyadept]

I'm...really confused. Everything seems to have fallen apart in this short amount of time. But with all the deaths, there might be Akuma about sometime soon. I don't know what's going on anymore.

Ah...no. Even if I'm alone, I'll have to keep trying and working hard. It's my job as an exorcist.

I wonder if Rinali is safe at home. And Rabi. ...and

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[darkhalf_time]

Hahaha... fallen apart?

[secretlyadept]

...

Who are you?

[darkhalf_time]

I've been called a 'shadow,' the darkness, or Dark Link.
Pick your poison.

[secretlyadept]

...

If you're associated with darkness, I'm afraid I will have to consider you my enemy.

[darkhalf_time]

If I made a list of how many people said that it'd be too long to fit in this world.

[secretlyadept]

Glad to know there are more on my side.

[darkhalf_time]

Yeah... whatever...

[secretlyadept]

Why did you do those things?

[darkhalf_time]

Because I can?
Because its my birthright?
You decided your path already.

[secretlyadept]

No one has the birthright to take others' lives. It's not a right, and it's no one's.

[darkhalf_time]

Say that again when your birth is from pure darkness via a mistake.

[secretlyadept]

...you're just misunderstood.

I know what it's like to be hated and scorned since birth--no one understanding why you are what you are. But you've just...you just haven't found the right person to show you that it's all right.

[darkhalf_time]

Hahaha... misunderstood? All right? Goddesses, you sound worse that the Lady Aeris. I am the darkness, the shadow of the 'Hero of Time' created when the Sages made a mistake. I am everything he is not, and he is everything I am not. As such, whereas he was destined to save Hyrule I am destined to bring about its demise. As original and shadow we dance on the cruel strings of fate until one of us dies. Who knows, maybe we'll both die. That'd appease the Sages, what with their mistake being corrected when I kill him.

[secretlyadept]

Miss Aeris is a kind and wonderful person!

...but I am sorry for your pain. Even a shadow has the same of its master.

[darkhalf_time]

She pities me, refuses to hate me. It's repulsive. I murder people, I deserve the hatred of everyone, I sure as hell dish it back.

...I will NEVER be but a 'mere shadow.' I'm going to put my original's head on a pike, and show the whole damn world I'm better than him.

[secretlyadept]

But hatred... Hatred will only bring unhappiness and emptiness.

No, you're not a shadow. You're an existence of your own. Who's to say who's better than anyone else? But still...what you've done is wrong.