Twenty-Fifth Projection

[wontdieifkilled]

[Video; Action for Ecruteak City]

[Shirou is sitting in his hotel room, clutching his newly-earned Fog Badge in his hand.]It's August 2...it's hard to believe, but I've already been here for an entire year

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[justicereigns]

I've been here over a year.

I don't even want to think about how little progress I've made.

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[wontdieifkilled]

Is there anything specific that has held you up?

[video]

[justicereigns]

Straw-Hat.

He's a kid here in my charge... something like that. It's a really long story.

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[wontdieifkilled]

Oh, so you've been taking care of him.

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[justicereigns]

Making sure he doesn't rob people.

[video]

[wontdieifkilled]

--What? Why would he try to rob people?

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[justicereigns]

He's a pirate.

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[wontdieifkilled]

A--a pirate? But didn't you say that he's just a kid?

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[justicereigns]

Yes. He's both. And I know him ten years in the future... when I'm supposed to catch him.

As I said, it's complicated.

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[wontdieifkilled]

I know the feeling, and how time can mess with things. My father died five years ago, but he was here a few months back. And for him, it had been ten years in my past.

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[justicereigns]

Yes. It's like that. [Sighs.]

Straw-Hat is my sworn prey, but here he's just a kid, and hasn't committed the crimes I'd arrest him for. Yet it's not like the future can be changed either, and even as a kid he's still a brat and his brothers taught him to mug people.

Just live it for what it is, I suppose.