[ic inbox] - Kaisou

[throwmoreswords]

You'd ought have a good reason for calling upon me directly, Mongrel.
State your case and don't bore me--or there may be consequences.

username: AUO

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text, shortly after seeing a certain post on the network...

[prunedworlds]

Are you planning on fighting that dragon that's supposed to show up soon?

Why does she want to know? She has her reasons. Whether they're GOOD reasons, though...

text: un: AUO

[throwmoreswords]

Not even slightly. I've only fractions of my power back and would likely end up more distraction and liability than help.

Brutal honesty applies even to one's self, after all. After a moment, a second text comes through.

Why? Are you intending to wade into the field?

[prunedworlds]

I have experience fighting things that size before. Or even bigger than that.

And not just the recent encounter with Orochi; honestly she's not even really counting that one.

So I figure I should help if I can.

[throwmoreswords]

Just because you have the experience and the potentiality doesn't mean you should keep throwing yourself at every problem that comes your way. You'll burn yourself to cinders if you keep spending of yourself in such a manner, and what use is that?

Some of us choose our battles and we want all of them, like idiots. Others of us only choose the interesting ones or the ones that aren't going to be clogged with piles of folks trying to do right.

[prunedworlds]

Isn't keeping the city safe kind of more important, though? And I've dealt with worse circumstances at Chaldea before anyway.

She genuinely doesn't get it. Years of being the only person for the job, with no backup to step in, really skews one's perspective...

[throwmoreswords]

Is it? There is nothing in this world I value over myself, so I have no interest or perspective in the idea of bleeding myself out for the benefits of others.

Besides. There are enough people standing on the front lines that it starts to get crowded--and dangerous--for the less than monstrously powerful. You are not a world-shaking calamity in a woman's skin, Fujimaru Ritsuka. You have the charisma of one, but charisma is irrelevant in front of a maddened, out of control beast.

The others can handle it, and if they cannot, we'll figure out the next phase of the efforts.

Even if he were operating from the perspective of the wise king--that shit sucked. He did it because he had to and no one else could.

[prunedworlds]

Leave it to Gilgamesh to say the most cutting and profound things as casually as you please. There's definitely a thing or two there that she wants to question, but for now...

So you're saying to just leave it to the people actually strong enough to fight, huh?

Having her own powerlessness thrown in her face stings a little, but she can't blame or resent him for it. She knows it's true, after all.