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[dualshadow]

You are correct; true friends would not capture one another on a whim. If it was necessary to ensure your own safety or the safety of others, however, I will not hesitate to capture you again. Even if it is unpleasant, should something occur that could make you lose control of yourself, I will restrain you.

[She pauses and stares him straight in the eyes. In a quiet, but by no means soft or yielding tone of voice, she adds:]

And I trust that you would have the courtesy of doing the same.

[It's her way of both apologizing and telling him she trusts him. Nothing he could say or do will ever make up for the hurt he caused her by rejecting her plan—rejecting her—but she has moved on. She must move on and heal. And this, this is another step of that healing.]

[adminproof]

[The mischievous mood is gone; his smile fades from its face as quickly as it crept up in the first place]

...Yes. The possibility of our data being or having been tampered with is a very real one. ...We are Swords, after all.

[Saying it out loud somehow makes it sound truer, more real, letting it sink in. He's had to deal with that for a long time, so this is old news, but it doesn't make it any less of an...unpleasant acknowledgement, so to speak. Since their code was recovered, it stands to reason that there is the slight chance that other things might have been tampered with. To him, CERES probably didn't retrieve them out of the pure goodness of their hearts.]

Even if we are not the finest ones an administrator would wish for.

[Saiduq knows he's been a very, very poor Sword, rebelling against his creator and administrator, rebelling against the divine order of the universe, helping humans destroy his fellow Swords...]

[dualshadow]

We can do this precisely because we are not the finest Swords to have. After all, I doubt that a Sword such as Denebola or Spica would rally forth to save our world. We may be failures as Swords, but we can still protect what is important to us.

[She closes her eyes for a moment in thought. Failure was a bitter pill to swallow, but it also made her stronger. Even though there are so many conflicted thoughts and feelings running through her heart and mind, she knows that no matter what—no matter what plans CERES had for them—her priority is to save their world and restore it. The enemy is different, but the goal is still the same.]

Even if our data has been tampered with, our goals will not change. I will see our world saved and restored. That is my wish as Miyako Hotsuin.

[adminproof]

Haha...well said, Miyako Hotsuin.

[Took the words right out of his mouth. It's good to see her with glimmers of hope, not muddled by paranoia and doubt, of herself and others.]

You need not work alone, of course. Since we share the same wish, and are now friends, it would be in both our best interests to cooperate with each other.

[It says a lot about them and their world that he even has to ask, since sometimes, friends don't cooperate with each other...and try to kill each other when it comes to route choices...

Still, he'll do his part in investigating what the deal is with CERES, if they've got an Astrolabe-esque mechanism or not, what they're capable of, and whatnot.]

[dualshadow]

[Oh, she's still muddled with paranoia and doubt, but she's learned that listening to those won't do her or others any good. She's suppressing and resisting them to the best of her ability, and her words are just as much Miyako trying to convince herself as much as they're meant to convince him.]

Of course, Alcor. I would have been extremely disappointed if you did not wish to cooperate with me. You have spent long enough sleeping, after all.

[Never mind that she was the one who made him sleep. Small details. Water under the bridge. Forgiveness and all that. Hopefully there won't be a route split in Cerealia too]

Besides which, this new threat is far beyond the capabilities of one individual. I have learned to rely on the strength of others just as much as my own; I will need your strength and knowledge in these coming days.

[adminproof]

And I will need your light in return.

[The light of her potential, that is, to make it happen at all. To guide him. It still strikes him as a bit strange that humans look to him for guidance, while he depended on them so very much to drag himself out of the pit of hopelessness and anguish. He only hopes that his words and/or actions can properly convey how grateful he is for their existences.]