ｏｎｅ。 ａｕｄｉｏ。

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[ There are a few slight moments of silence - perhaps, if you listen closely enough, you can hear some slight sounds of nature from the forest's edge in the background - before a girl speaks up with a quite deadpan (and calm, considering the situation) tone. ]

Am I being reduced to this again this soon already? I really must be popular with all of you witches. So, which one of you do I have the honor of dealing with this time? Bernkastel again, or even that Featherine witch? ... Either way, you can come out and start laughing now. If you're looking for your cue, this is it.

[ She pauses for a moment, as if she actually does expect someone to pop up. But when it doesn't happen, she just continues talking. ]

It's pretty inconsiderate to let someone waiting after dragging them in, you know. Although I guess I should expect as much from the lot of you.

And what's up with these wings? 'Sure, let's give her pink wings this time just to see the look on her face, ahahaha' or whatever, right? I'm not laughing, but surely you predicted as much.

... Any normal person would start to think I'm going insane by now, like I'm talking to myself. Ah.. it's useless, it's all useless. Does anyone who's not me feel like speaking up already?

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Voice

[magicrevelation.livejournal.com]

Popular? Don't make me laugh!

voice;

[kakeravoyager.livejournal.com]

[...Wow, they actually showed up together. Not sure how she should feel about this.

...Oh wait. The last time she saw Ange was when she made her blow herself up. Okay she knows exactly how to feel about this.]

To be mentioned in such a way; I'm quite honored Ange.

voice; and a second one...

[chronica.livejournal.com]

Witches? What sort of Witches?

Voice

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[ She's honestly about to deadpan back just on first instinct, but then she realises just what exactly the voice is and just.. stops. It's Battler, it's her older brother, and she hadn't expected to see him again this soon or.. well, even at all, really. ]

Onii-chan..? ... That's you, right?

voice;

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[ fml. She expected some witch to show up, but it still isn't pleasant. And it just had to be Bernkastel out of all of them. But that doesn't mean she's just going to lose her cool or deadpan like that. ]

It's only natural, right? It doesn't matter whether I'm trying to jump off a rooftop or stuck in some foresty area with wings, you're usually near. Maybe I'm actually the one who should feel honored.

voice; I approve of this course of action...

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The annoying kind.

[ Curt as ever, y u p. But no, okay, maybe she should actually add more to that than just deadpan. ]

What other sort of witches could I be referring to?

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[It's the talk about witches what first catches his attention, mostly because it's the second time in a matter of few days that he hears it. It's Bernkastel's name what makes him put a filter.]

I feel like speaking up. I would like to say "don't worry, this isn't the work of those witches" but even if I can say that it's not their work, I can't say the first part.

[The calm and deadpan tone unnerves him, it brings echoes of Rika's older voice, honestly he never liked it much. It always sounded empty to him somehow.]

Don't touch the wings, if you damage them you'll die. You're in a place named Luceti, a world to which people of different worlds are pulled in. You're a prisoner here now, like me and everyone else that is likely to answer to you.

voice;

[kakeravoyager.livejournal.com]

To be granted a miracle by me is a wonderful honor in itself. Ah, but mentioning that ancient relic with such a flat tone...I wonder. Tell me, what was the last memory you can recall?

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[ Honestly, the filter slightly catches her attention, but she doesn't speak up on it just yet - mostly because the information is all a little to take in at once. ]

Luceti, huh.. [ A pause and then there's a slight scoff. ] If this is the work of witches after all, it sure is an elaborate prank. But since there's no way they would think up something big like that just to bother me, I'll believe you for now.

In that case, who are our captors?

Voice

[magicrevelation.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's me!

[Battler didn't actually expect to see Ange here, but he'll try and act like the cool onii-chan she wanted.]

Who else were you expecting? Grandfather? Heh, damned geezer doesn't show himself in places like this. You'd have a better chance seeing him jump outside of a window on a rainy night!

voice;

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Yeah, it sure is a 'wonderful honor'. [ n o t

She ponders whether or not she should tell Bernkastel for a moment - after all, why would she give the witch more information to use against her? But then again.. It's not like she has anything in particular to lose by saying it. ]

I know what happened up to the sixth game. [ That's vague enough, let's go with that compromise. ] You didn't think I'd just sit still after the fourth, right?

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[He just kind of wanted to get around the basics already, so he was direct. He assumed that she could take in given her tone and reaction to arriving.]

You know what? I take it back, that it's not the the work of witches, because I don't know much about our captors so they could be witches after all. But I can tell you that it's not Bernkastel's work, she's here but as a prisoner too.

Our captors go by the name of Malnosso, they claim to be scientists and use us for experiments. Their version of the situation is different, though. They say that whatever brings people from other worlds to this one is beyond their control and also captured them, and that they bring us to this prison to protect us from another group while they try to find a way for everyone to return to their worlds.

Voice

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[ onii-chan so cool...

Give her a moment, Battler, she's just still slightly confused. ]

But.. this isn't Rokkenjima, isn't it? Unless Grandfather felt like giving the island a thorough renovation.

... Don't tell me they dragged you here as well. Wherever 'here' is.

voice;

[kakeravoyager.livejournal.com]

Of course not. If anything, I expected that someone to bring you out of the toy box. We stored what was left of you for another time, but that old hag sneaked in like the nosy person she is.

Don't worry, you're going to like what comes next. I invited you to the 7th game's finale. You really enjoyed seeing it's conclusion. [She cackles.]

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It wouldn't surprise me in the sleightest if they're witches. Dragging people in against their own will just to cure their own boredom is just like them. [ She's still discussing all of this rather casually, since.. that's what Ange does. ] ... You know Bernkastel? I guess I'll have to start pitying you a little already.

[ There's another pause to consider all of that other information. Then she sighs. ]

Don't make me laugh. Are they seriously claiming something like that? Do we even have any basis to believe them on? Anyone can just claim such a thing to try and win people's favor.

voice;

[chronica.livejournal.com]

Nevermind then.

[It's obvious they don't have the same Witches, so that is where she will leave it at.]

You're in a place called Luceti, where we are trapped against our will. I doubt our captors are Witches of any sort.

voice; 1 / 2

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Oh, the two of you are acquaintances? I can't quite see you and her discussing mystery novels over a cup of tea yet though.

voice; 2 / 3 i lied

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[ That second part actually makes her pause though. Because she knows that if Bernkastel says something like that, she actually means the opposite. She doesn't need that cackle there to realise that.

She swallows hard and continues on, still trying to keep the same tone. ]

voice;

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What, there's going to be yet another game? Didn't onii-chan and Beatrice have their happy end at the end of the sixth? [ Ange probably sounds a little bitter over that because wow, onii-chan, didn't you promise to come home.. ]

voice;

[kakeravoyager.livejournal.com]

["Happy end". Just hearing the phrase makes her want to throw up a little.]

That story is a mystery, not a romance. Nothing was resolved. [She smiles a little.] For the record, Featherine was the one who asked me to be the Game Master of that board. She wanted to see the answers in the cat box to see if they matched with hers.

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I already had a vague idea about the 'trapped against our will' part, yeah. It's starting to become a common occurence for me now, how annoying.

Do you know anything about them ther than the fact that they're probably not witches?

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[breaks_destiny]

I know Bernkastel, I'm honored to count her as a friendly acquaintance if not a friend in fact.

[Pause.]

Which basically means that I try to keep her at an arms length, because she can be helpful when she feels like it but I won't trust my back to her.

[He has had glimpses of how she can do double game, after all, not that he really ever got to trust her blindly, but there was a time in which he wasn't as wary of her as he is now. Still she hasn't directly done anything bad to him other than help so he can't risk and make her his full enemy. Bernkastel is a mine field, one from which he wants to vanish, but from which he can't.]

They don't really seem interested in win our favor, though. I will give them that at least, they just make that claim and use it as their excuse. Whether we like it or not, whether if we believe it or not, they aren't concerned about that. Part of it is true, though, there's another group, called the Third Party, who are out to kill us all... Just because we exist apparently.

voice;

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Sure, I'd like to see the end of the mystery, but from the way you talk about it I oddly feel less and less like it.

So just reading all of it wasn't enough for her? That woman was a little annoying, but aside from that I didn't mind her all that much. But.. anyone who decided to appoint you as the Game Master must have a really bad sense of humor.

voice;

[kakeravoyager.livejournal.com]

If you think I'm bad, know that she's even worse. The one who taught me how to drag the guts out of a story, digging my way into the very depths of the heart and then crushing it in the palm of my hand. [She laughs lightly.] That is the sort of person Featherine Augustus Auaurora is. You really don't know who to side yourself with, Ange.

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A friend around who you can't even turn around in fear of receiving a knife in your back.. That must be a real good sort of friend.

[ There might be a tiny frown. Sure, Ange has cooperated with Bernkastel before and.. perhaps in exchange for the truth she might have again under very specific circumstances, but she doesn't even consider her anything like a 'friendly acquaintance'. And she can't really fantom the idea someone like Bernkastel can have friends, really. ]

She's only helpful because she can just dump you in an even worse state after that and laugh at you for some amusement.

Mysterious captors, wings that will make us die when they're destroyed, another group that's out to kill us for no reason.. This place really sounds like a tropical vacation resort already.