No. We're not. Take a good look around at your surroundings. The sights, the population, the skyline itself. This is not a city of over two million souls with 2800 years worth of cultural history, it is a small island town.
It’s a difficult to grasp, I know, but you’re in Memento Eden, which is worlds away from Naples.
That’s a good way of viewing it, yes. You could think of it as a sort of uncharted, fantastic island where lot of people who have been brought from seemingly different worlds and timelines are forced to live together temporarily. It sounds unreal, but that is the reality.
It’s not particularly dangerous, but it is incredibly irritating and inconvenient.
Wow... that's pretty cool! [Far from your ideas of inconvenience, this is a delight to a child, who understand much of the magic, and fewer of the consequences.]
So, is it magical? Are you a sorcerer? Is that why you have elf ears on your head?
...I'm just a immortal killing machine man. There are more interesting individuals with magical powers and animal attributes around the island. You should go bother look for them.
It's…an important symbol from my home. A great man once dressed this way and others have since worn similar costumes in order to honor him as they attempt to carry out his mission.
*Normally he would have told Gokudera to piss off by now, but he really likes talking about Batman*
There have been only a few men and women who have worn his symbol, and even less who had any true claim to it. Occasionally people who didn’t deserve it, who didn’t understand the meaning behind it, would attempt to wear it. I dealt with one of them only moments before I arrived here.
His mission was…to bring order to a chaotic world. To do what police cannot, and move in ways the law does not, in order to protect the innocent and punish those who would do them harm. To save a city that was rotting from the inside by ridding it of the malignant elements within.
Ultimately I think his mission was to create a world, or at least a city, in which no child would ever lose his or her family to criminal violence.
Like the mafia. [Hayato concludes, with a small smile, rather thinking he's understood.] Well, like some familigas, anyway.
[Not like his, if the ultimate goal is not getting parental figures killed by the underworld, but-- he doesn't have to know that yet.]
My father's a lot like that, too. So Mister Batman was a hero? But also just a man, like you said. So anyone can be a hero-? Then why can only certain people wear it, like you?
The Mafia? Oh, that's right, this one is a friend of Tsuna's. I didn't recognize him
If your father is such a man you would do good to learn from him...while you still have him.
You have to earn the cowl. Anyone can try to be a figure like Batman, but they often aren't very good at it, or they corrupt it for their own ends. Only a few actually have the ability, drive and resources to make a difference the way that he did. Those who can't are better off sticking to other sorts of heroics and leaving the title to those of us who can honor it properly.
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We're not in Italy, boy.
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No. We're not. Take a good look around at your surroundings. The sights, the population, the skyline itself. This is not a city of over two million souls with 2800 years worth of cultural history, it is a small island town.
It’s a difficult to grasp, I know, but you’re in Memento Eden, which is worlds away from Naples.
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Worlds away...? Not on Earth, you mean? Like in Fantasy books?
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It’s not particularly dangerous, but it is incredibly irritating and inconvenient.
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So, is it magical? Are you a sorcerer? Is that why you have elf ears on your head?
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...I'm just a immortal killing machine man. There are more interesting individuals with magical powers and animal attributes around the island. You should go bother look for them.
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Are you an acrobat? Or a magician? Or are you just one of those crazy hobos--?
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It's…an important symbol from my home. A great man once dressed this way and others have since worn similar costumes in order to honor him as they attempt to carry out his mission.
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So you all dress like this? What was his mission?
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There have been only a few men and women who have worn his symbol, and even less who had any true claim to it. Occasionally people who didn’t deserve it, who didn’t understand the meaning behind it, would attempt to wear it. I dealt with one of them only moments before I arrived here.
His mission was…to bring order to a chaotic world. To do what police cannot, and move in ways the law does not, in order to protect the innocent and punish those who would do them harm. To save a city that was rotting from the inside by ridding it of the malignant elements within.
Ultimately I think his mission was to create a world, or at least a city, in which no child would ever lose his or her family to criminal violence.
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[Not like his, if the ultimate goal is not getting parental figures killed by the underworld, but-- he doesn't have to know that yet.]
My father's a lot like that, too. So Mister Batman was a hero? But also just a man, like you said. So anyone can be a hero-? Then why can only certain people wear it, like you?
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If your father is such a man you would do good to learn from him...while you still have him.
You have to earn the cowl. Anyone can try to be a figure like Batman, but they often aren't very good at it, or they corrupt it for their own ends. Only a few actually have the ability, drive and resources to make a difference the way that he did. Those who can't are better off sticking to other sorts of heroics and leaving the title to those of us who can honor it properly.
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What's a cowl? Is it like a cow that's very angry?
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