001 | (accidental) voice

[railgunning]

[There's the sounds of a scuffle---with a girl's voice cursing and complaining about 'stupid idiots, I'm not handing over my marques or whatever the money here's called! I told that little girl I'd buy her some bread!' ---when the tablet's voice feed suddenly clicks on:]

Okay, now let me get this straight. We're supposed to be soldiers, off fighting this war, right? So tell me this---

[The girl speaking quickly grunts as she dodges the thugs' attacks. The sounds of her footsteps make a scurrying noise as if she quickly backpedaled away. Afterward, she takes a deep, irritated breath.]

---isn't part of our job supposed to be keeping the peace? Why are there still moron thugs running around?

[After she poses this inquiry, there's the sound of electricity cracking, and the tablet suddenly shuts off.]



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voice;

[taijiya]

Eh...? Do you need help?!

voice;

[railgunning]

[Some time later, the voice feed returns to normal. Mikoto sighs.]

I'm good, thanks...even after running into two waves of moron thugs.

[Beat.]

Is this sorta thing common around here? I know the place isn't in the best of shape, but...those guys were pretty vicious. And I've dealt with a lot of different thugs before.

voice;

[taijiya]

Well...

The natives have been pretty hostile lately, since the bombs. I think they blame us for bringing down the UE's wrath.

voice;

[railgunning]

The bombs...

[Mikoto's voice falters slightly at that. There's a pause.

Shiki's harsh words come back to her---of course the civilians would blame them, in light of something like that.]

But we're here to fight the UE, right? I mean...why would they... [She swallows.] ...well. As wrecked as it is, it's still home to them.

[She sighs. This was way too complicated.] This isn't gonna be easy, is it?

voice;

[taijiya]

Think about it, though. The UE is big, and strong, and impossibly far away. There is no way they could ever take out their anger on the source.

And we are strangers with warm beds and always enough food who, theoretically, never have to die. It's not right, but it's not hard to understand.

No... if it was easy, we wouldn't be here.

voice;

[railgunning]

Yeah...so, the natives have no other choice but to get angry at us because we're just as far away to them.

[Mikoto grumbles. Migraine, incoming.]

This is already sounding like a time loop that never ends. And---wait.

[Beat.]

We can't...die?

voice;

[taijiya]

The Initiative seems to have technology that lets it resurrect Transports. Their technology in general isn't the most reliable thing all the time, but... the resurrection has always worked, since I've been here and probably before that.