deadly_legacy | ✜004 [voice]

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✜004 [voice]

[Private to Allen Walker, but sadly very hackable due to fail skills]

...Allen? If you aren't busy can I talk to you about something?

[end private]

Lavi, Yuuki, are you all right after yesterday?

Lelouch, it's safe to go back in the kitchen. [Little smile. She might have been overly protective yesterday after all her friends started getting hurt.]

I hope everyone else is well.

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Y-yeah. It should still be warm. Um....

[He closes the door so not to let any more cold air in, and gestures to the table, since the door leads into the kitchen anyway. Set there are two hot cups of tea, and still flustered (damn it), he pulls a chair out for Euphie.]

I-It's not a fancy table or anything, sorry...

It's very nice. Thank you. [Smiles at him and takes a seat] I didn't mean to make you nervous. I just... Well... It wasn't the kind of conversation to have not in person.

Yes...It's fine, Miss Euphie. I'm...[Trying to find the words to say...] I apologize for making you worry. I know that my...erm...story isn't something easy to be comfortable around. I understand if it bothers you...

I'm sorry I couldn't explain it any clearer. Even I don't fully understand the Noah.

Of course it bothers me. I don't want you to get hurt or have to sacrifice so much.

I'm fine! It's something I have to overcome, is all. If I get down, that will only make others worry! I can't be defeated by some Noah who thinks he can have my body!

[...Smiles] You're very brave. [Admires this.]

All exorcists are brave! We have to be.

Why did you become an exorcist? To help people?

To save akuma, actually. Their souls are trapped and forced to kill.

[Nods] No one should be forced to do something so awful. I'm glad they have people like you to help them.

T-thanks! We try our best!

[Smiles at him and then her eyes move down to her tea thoughtfully.] Why don't Road and Tyki like you? Is it because you don't follow the Noah's instincts? Or because you're an exorcist?

Mostly because I'm an exorcist and I just won't die. [He laughs lightly, but then he gets just a little serious.] We're on opposite ends of a Holy war. The Church and the exorcists use Innocence to fight in order to destroy akuma and save humanity. The Earl and Noah control the akuma in order to destroy humanity. Obviously, there is some conflict between Noah and exorcists. But I cannot forgive the Earl or the Noah for the death and suffering of so many. I cannot allow people who want to destroy mankind win.

[Headquarters...his first true 'home', the home of his friends, was destroyed. Finders, scientists he knew...Tapp...all killed mercilessly.]

No, but... [Listening, thoughtful.] I feel bad for them too though.

[He smiles, sadly, fingers gripping at the tea cup.]

Me too. I wonder...how they would live if they weren't controlled by the Earl. I wonder if I could play cards with Tyki. And maybe even play games with Road...innocent ones. It's hard to fight them. They're humans.

...You know, Road told me other things about you too.

Huh? More bad things?

Well, she did say she likes you...and that she wants to kill you...

But she said something about your father. ...That you brought him back?

That's not surprising. She did stab my eye that one ti-...

Ma..na..

She...she told you about Mana...?

[Feels bad] She didn't say much. I just... I thought you should know that she'd told me something like that. And then she suggested I should ask about your scar.

But you don't have to tell me anything you don't want to, Allen. I'm sure they are private things.

It's...I suppose since you've already been told...

[He's not mentally willing to say these things...but he does anyway.]

Mana. He adopted me from the streets when I was a kid. He was a real father to me...he died when I was still young. And when the Earl came, he said he could bring Mana back...and...I just wanted my dad back, you know? I was stupid. I agreed to the contract, but it only brought Mana back as an akuma, a killing machine...and it needed a body. It...Mana tried to kill me...he scratched my eye and cursed it, and that's the scar I have...I...I just reacted. My arm invocated because there was Innocence in it. And it destroyed Mana. I didn't mean...I tried to stop...I-it..It happened fast.

He was already dead...but in a way I killed him.

[And he looks down into lukewarm tea, biting his tongue because he can't even look at Euphie now. He said he, he had to say it, she already knew . Even so. She knows more than he was ever willing to have her know...Dammit Noah...]

[Eyes open wide in sympathy more than surprise.] Allen... [She reaches out and takes his hand. Hers is colder than it should be, but she doesn't worry about that.] It's not your fault.

I'm sure Mana wouldn't want to hurt you. You saved him from doing that.

[His arms tense, and he tries to pull his hands back very slowly and slightly. He doesn't want to hurt her feelings, just...He doesn't have gloves on...]

I'm fine, Miss Euphie, but thank you. I'm sorry, but could we not talk about Mana? That is...very personal to me. I don't want to talk about that day. I prefer my memories of him be of the good father that he was...not an akuma.

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