Hatate Quest Nelja

[Hello Purvis]

"Shouldn't be hard. Get some lamp oil, spread it in a few different places so it's not all bunched up in one easy to fight spot, light it, and go."

[Oldmansour]

>Liluye nods. "A sound approach to a deliberate fire."

[Hello Purvis]

>"The real trick will be sneaking in. You like fighting vampires and stuff, what's the security there like?"

[Oldmansour]

>"The real trick will be sneaking in. You like fighting vampires and stuff, what's the security there like?"

>"I am not certain. I have not visited there, nor do I know enough about Greed to guess as to his habits and defensive strategies."

[Hello Purvis]

>"Oh. Well. I guess you're retired and stuff, anyways."

[Oldmansour]

>"Oh. Well. I guess you're retired and stuff, anyways."

>Liluye chuckles. "I suppose you could say that. In this Gensokyo at least, there are no vampires to hunt, and humans live in peace with those who are not human. A warrior here... was not necessary."

[Hello Purvis]

>"Not much different back home, actually. I mean, you don't need like specific hunters and stuff. We have shrine maidens and other problem solver types."

[Oldmansour]

>"Not much different back home, actually. I mean, you don't need like specific hunters and stuff. We have shrine maidens and other problem solver types."

>"I have been trying not to think too much about the Gensokyo I left behind." Liluye admits. "It was a method of keeping safe my mind."

[Hello Purvis]

>"Oh. Well, it's gotten a lot better from the bad old days! Anyhow, how about Sakuya, has she had a go at it?"

[Oldmansour]

>"Oh. Well, it's gotten a lot better from the bad old days! Anyhow, how about Sakuya, has she had a go at it?"

>"Sakuya lives there."

[Hello Purvis]

>"The real one?"

[Oldmansour]

>"The real one?"

>"The one you would call 'real' does not call herself Sakuya."

[Hello Purvis]

>"Well tough titty, that's who she is and it doesn't matter how she misspells it."

[Oldmansour]

>"Well tough titty, that's who she is and it doesn't matter how she misspells it."

>"Ahhh, you are an arsonist and a namer." the barber says with the half-grin on her face.

[Hello Purvis]

>"I didn't name her, that's just who she is whether she likes it or not."

[Oldmansour]

>"I didn't name her, that's just who she is whether she likes it or not."

>"A very bold statement, my young tengu." the Indian replies, and then bows her head slightly, her arm extended slightly towards one of her barber's chairs. "Sit down, please."

[Hello Purvis]

>Have a seat.
>"Not really all that bold. I mean, you can put on just as many masks as you want, but that doesn't actually change what's underneath."

>_

[Oldmansour]

>Have a seat.
>"Not really all that bold. I mean, you can put on just as many masks as you want, but that doesn't actually change what's underneath."

>_

>"A wise point to consider. However, are you so certain that this woman is so similar to the Sakuya Izayoi you know?"

[Hello Purvis]

>"Because the past doesn't change. She might be a different person now due to whatever happened, but it's dumb to pretend you're not yourself."

[Oldmansour]

>"Because the past doesn't change. She might be a different person now due to whatever happened, but it's dumb to pretend you're not yourself."

>"I am not sure I understand what you mean."

[Hello Purvis]

>"Maybe I'm not the same as I was a few decades ago, but that doesn't mean I'm not the same person."

[Oldmansour]

>"Maybe I'm not the same as I was a few decades ago, but that doesn't mean I'm not the same person."

>"Ahhh." Liluye vocalizes her understanding as she starts to untie your pigtails. "But, what if the two women you think of as Sakuya Izayoi have led very different lives? Perhaps, even from their birth?"

[Hello Purvis]

>"So what? She's still the same person. If people were just like books you could write anything into, you'd never have children who disappoint their parents."

[Oldmansour]

>"So what? She's still the same person. If people were just like books you could write anything into, you'd never have children who disappoint their parents."

>"Hh, I am not certain I would feel the same, if I were to meet a doppelganger of mine." she rumbles in that gravelly voice of hers as her smooth, light fingers gently tease some of the tangles from your hair. "Even if we were born to the same parents, and even that is something of a stretch, the divergenses in our lives may have created an unbridgable gulf between she and I. Hhh, or, perhaps, even, 'he'."

[Hello Purvis]

>"You'd be real different in some ways, sure. But there's others that'd be close or the same. Some things are just inborn."

[Oldmansour]

>"You'd be real different in some ways, sure. But there's others that'd be close or the same. Some things are just inborn."

>"Then, you believe that, should a hundred different Sakuyas were compared to each other, all of them would share at least one common trait, if not more? Simply as a consequence of them being who they are."

[Hello Purvis]

>"Yup. There's always something about yourself that's going to be there. I mean, we've had a society that understood this and lasted since before you guys were recording history."

[Oldmansour]

>"Yup. There's always something about yourself that's going to be there. I mean, we've had a society that understood this and lasted since before you guys were recording history."

>"Ohh?" the barber replies as she retrieves a thin-toothed comb. "Your people have speculated on the possibility of the myriad paths of reality before?"

[Hello Purvis]

>"We don't have to," she says. "We've had generations of tengu instead, each with their as set by our ancestors. We know well what it means to have things that your experiecnes can change, and things that they can't. As I said, if you could chance anything, no child would have the change to do anything to disappoint their parents, because we would have figured out how to deal with that. There's always some essential youness that's going to be there, no matter what, because we've seen it since the dawn of time."

[Oldmansour]

>"We don't have to," she says. "We've had generations of tengu instead, each with their as set by our ancestors. We know well what it means to have things that your experiecnes can change, and things that they can't. As I said, if you could chance anything, no child would have the change to do anything to disappoint their parents, because we would have figured out how to deal with that. There's always some essential youness that's going to be there, no matter what, because we've seen it since the dawn of time."

>The barber's mouth spreads into a satisfied smile as you pontificate. "It is pleasurable to have a chance to speak thusly again. In a way, I have been alone with only my own thoughts for a very long time. Fresh philosophy and wisdom is a welcome wine, and yours is a young wisdom. Especially rare, for one such as I."
>"I am curious, did you find any of this sameness in the version of yourself that you encountered in this place?"