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Um, excuse me, would anyone here mind a spar with me? I don't want to hurt anyone but ...I think it's been a while since I last fought someone. I'm a Crystal Eren so that means I'm not a physical fighter...

[After a couple of seconds, Shirley thought about it some more]

Actually, I want to ask, would anyone mind teaching me how to fight using your fists? I think I might need some help training... [And you know, getting ready for the Fishlympics]

I'll promise that I'll teach you about Crystal Erens in return!

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Merines . . .

[He was a little torn on what to say. Or perhaps massively so.]

I know that you might not like it, Walter but...

It is what I believe in. [Pause] I'm ready for what else you might want to say.

[And she's waiting for it......]

. . . It is the Merines' will. I have nothing to say to that.

[Because she said she believed in it, and he would not be one to contest that. As much as he disagreed with the overall direction of her newfound choice.]

[For a moment, Shirley raised an eyebrow at him. With that, she smiled at him]

I'm surprised, I thought you would disagree. Or rather...I'm surprised that you agreed right away.

[He disagreed. History was bound to repeat itself. Orerines were bound to betray and cause numerous deaths. In the last four thousand years, they'd spelled nothing but trouble.

Still . . . ]

You are the agent of Nerifes, the divine will of the sea. If it's from you, then surely . . .

[Surely, it must yield some good for the Ferines.

But he was nothing if not honest.]

But I cannot trust the Orerines.

It's okay, I'm just glad that you're being honest with me!

[Pause]

And I've noticed that you seem...calmer compared to the last time I saw you. [But then again, death can change a person...]

That I am happy about too...

[Considering especially stressful circumstances during the time she spoke of, he was indeed calmer, if not more prone to boiling over on the inside. It had been easier to be less vocal when he'd traveled in disguise, pretending to be one of them, but going back to that mindset had proved impossible after all that which had transpired.

. . . ]

I've had time.

[To think. Get angry. Cool off. Get angry again.]

The last time was . . . [the memory was vivid was he recalled] the Wings of Light.

Yes...that was the last time I saw you... [And then there was a sigh] So much as happened since that time...[And knowing that she can't look back anymore]

But the both of us have grown stronger in our own way, that's what I think.

Stronger?

[He felt weaker and listless. That she would say they were both stronger, in "their own ways," no less, puzzled him. In his own way, he was the opposite of what she said.]

It seems that you're much more patient now.

[At least she hopes]

So you're more willing to think instead of charging straight forward.

[If he was to be the judge of that, he really wasn't. He knew he wasn't -- ah.]

There's nothing to charge at here. Monsters are unheard of.

[And by virtue of a weak "disguise," he would be a fool to attack people at random.]

[Oh Wally]

Are you getting more frustrated with the people here? To the point where you couldn't stand it? It seems like you've ...grown more tolerate.

[Was that even the word to say?]

[Tolerant. Tolerant enough to talk to them for more than a minute, certainly. He was of a shorter fuse than he was before dramatic events in MelFes, but all things considered, perhaps he was more tolerant in the long run. He just didn't care to say a lot.]

Before you arrived on the Legacy, I disguised myself as an Orerines to gather information . . . It's not that different.

[He had a taste of it, though. A taste of that freedom from them, freedom that could've been acquired if the Cataclysm had -- at any rate, he'd been more vocal about his hatred, and it wasn't so easy to recover from withholding his unlikable comments.]

I don't think so, I think there's a difference...

[And then there is a sigh]

You don't have to agree with me but I am glad that you are changing.

[He did't want to change.

This conversation was over.]

. . . it's about time we headed back. We strayed from our objective.

[If he doesn't want to talk about it, then Shirley wasn't going to force him to.]

All right, we'll head back. [Pause] Thank you for helping me how to fight, Walter. It means a lot of me that you were helping me.

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