9th Conviction [Action/Voice] Backdated to...BEFORE.

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[Yo citizens! Tsubaki is currently faced with a puzzle, and she needs your help. So if you're in/around the clothing store today, there'll be a troubled redhead holding up a nice knee-length skirt and asking a very very difficult question.]

Excuse me, but... do you think this skirt is, uhh, t-too short?

[...What? She doesn't want to look like a

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[You know.

Considering some of the things in the last few days, cake sounds unreasonably delicious right now.] Cake? [...] That sounds so good right now... u-um, when would you like to, Tsubaki? Right now?

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Y-Yes?

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Oh, don't worry - it's not a big deal or anything. [No. Not at all.] I was just wondering... You know that Jin is back in Luceti, don't you?

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[Oh, FFFFFFF.] Ah, that's right! I was going to tell you, but... I forgot.

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[Typical. TYPICAL. But it's okay. (8]

Well, I've run into him a few times myself. And I think...

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I think we should try to keep him away from Ragna. [totally not stating the obvious here! totally.]

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[What.

Noel's honestly a little shocked to hear it. She didn't know... wait, how did she--?]

Wh... What makes you say that? [Noel already knows why it's a good idea for the two to stay away, but she also wants to hear what Tsubaki has to say first.]

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[It's really just from bits and pieces. She's trying to figure out what's going on, but... even asking about it is difficult.]

You know how determined he was to find the Grim Reaper back in Kagutsuchi, and the way he mentioned him... [She frowns.] ...I just get this bad feeling about it.

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["The way he mentioned him"... that doesn't sound very good.]

...you're right. I think it would be a good idea, too, if those two just... don't run into each other. [The fact that they're brothers is practically screaming in her head as she says this, but she forces it back. Brother or not, Jin becomes a danger whenever Ragna is involved.]

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Noel... [Her gaze falls to the floor.]

Ragna once told me something that I don't know whether or not to believe. I don't even know if it makes sense anymore, but... [Then her eyes meet Noel's.] He told me that he and Jin were brothers.

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[Something about this almost doesn't make sense, because she says it was Ragna, but... it was true.]

He... He told you that, Tsubaki?

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Yes. Do you... do you know if it's true? [What? Ragna tells her things! SOMETIMES.]

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[SHE THOUGHT HE DIDN'T LIKE YOU THAT MUCH OKAY D: But hey, if Ragna told you, then...]

...I do. [...] It's... true.

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[SHOWS WHAT YOU KNOW, DON'T IT? But nah, it was an experiment :<]

B-But that's...

[...] How long have you known about this?

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[She can't help but look away a bit. Somehow, deep down, Noel thought that she may have had at least some sort of an idea... she grew up with Jin, didn't she? How couldn't she know, when Noel found out within three months of knowing Ragna...?]

I-I've... known for a while. Tsubaki, you... really didn't know anything? [Not even if he had a brother...?]

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[Tsubaki looks away too. That's what she had been thinking. All this time and Jin never bothered to tell her...?]

...Back when I met Jin, he was already a Kisaragi. Maybe it was hard for him... to leave his real family. Maybe that's why he [never told her anything] didn't want to talk about it.

[...] It's... kind of sad. [But what's more crushing is that he's really not just her brother anymore. The other Kisaragis never mattered, but this... this obviously matters.]