[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.

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[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.