Keine Quest (Part 4): Broken History

[Hello Purvis]

>"I think I can go through life without putting people to the sword. Coincidentally enough, people have done it all throughout history. But please, continue to do everything possible to avoid even the briefest moment of self-reflection."
>"It's a logical one, Utsuho. It seems that would be all you have left. You do still dream?"

[DracoOmega]

>"I think I can go through life without putting people to the sword. Coincidentally enough, people have done it all throughout history. But please, continue to do everything possible to avoid even the briefest moment of self-reflection."
>"It's a logical one, Utsuho. It seems that would be all you have left. You do still dream?"

>Kanako simply shakes her head, a pitying expression on her face.
>Utsuho shrugs. "Sometimes, maybe."

[Hello Purvis]

>Pay Kanako no more mind.
>"Maybe?"

[DracoOmega]

>Pay Kanako no more mind.
>"Maybe?"

>You decide to ignore Kanako. For the time being, it seems that feeling is mutual.
>"It's a pretty strange thing for you to care about," Utsuho says.

[Hello Purvis]

>"When it's all you have, there isn't much else to inquire about."

[DracoOmega]

>"When it's all you have, there isn't much else to inquire about."

>Utsuho looks up at you again. "What do you want from me?"

[Hello Purvis]

>"I'm trying to estimate just how badly you've been affected by all this, in better words than really badly. So please, just answer my questions."

[DracoOmega]

>"I'm trying to estimate just how badly you've been affected by all this, in better words than really badly. So please, just answer my questions."

>"Asking me if I dream is a pretty strange way to go about it," she says. "Sure, from time to time, like anyone else. Happy?"

[Hello Purvis]

>"What about? And, if you have any way to measure it, how often?"

[DracoOmega]

>"What about? And, if you have any way to measure it, how often?"

>"Just stuff," Utsuho replies, looking back down again. "If you want to psychoanalyze, go find someone else."

[Hello Purvis]

>"Does it really seem so strange that someone would care about you?"

[DracoOmega]

>"Does it really seem so strange that someone would care about you?"

>"Maybe," she says. "But I still don't see what dreaming has to do with anything."

[Hello Purvis]

>"Because you've been isolated for a long time, Utsuho. Months, at least. Perhaps longer. I've met, very recently, a youkai who endured seven years worth of isolation in a house, having a small yard to roam about in. To a large degree, she had difficulty telling fantasy from reality. While you've not been isolated for quite so long, your own case is much more severe. That is why I am asking you about dreams, it's about the only thing you have left."

[DracoOmega]

>"Because you've been isolated for a long time, Utsuho. Months, at least. Perhaps longer. I've met, very recently, a youkai who endured seven years worth of isolation in a house, having a small yard to roam about in. To a large degree, she had difficulty telling fantasy from reality. While you've not been isolated for quite so long, your own case is much more severe. That is why I am asking you about dreams, it's about the only thing you have left."

>"Still got hate," Utsuho says, turning towards Kanako. She holds her stare for a moment, then lets her head drop again. "Or at least what's left of it. There's nothing I want from them. Or anyone else."

[Hello Purvis]

>"You wouldn't want to hear Satori call your name again? Or see palace of the earth spirits again? Do you really not wish to be free anymore?"

[DracoOmega]

>"You wouldn't want to hear Satori call your name again? Or see palace of the earth spirits again? Do you really not wish to be free anymore?"

>Utsuho is silent for a moment. "I... don't know."

[Hello Purvis]

>"What do you do, when you're awake?"

[DracoOmega]

>"What do you do, when you're awake?"

>"Pretty much this," she says.

[Hello Purvis]

>"Pretty much this," she says.

>"I imagined. But, do you think about things? Does your mind just go blank? Do you see things that aren't there?"

[DracoOmega]

>"I imagined. But, do you think about things? Does your mind just go blank? Do you see things that aren't there?"

>"Blank's better," she says. "Nothing worth thinking about anyway."

[Hello Purvis]

>Nod.
>"How often does it happen?"

[DracoOmega]

>Nod.
>"How often does it happen?"

>"How often does what?" Utsuho shrugs. "Probably the same answer, anyway. Who knows?"

[Blitzer]

>I think I could've negotiated Utsuho's release better.
>"Why is it that you don't care about anything anymore?"

[DracoOmega]

>I think I could've negotiated Utsuho's release better.
>"Why is it that you don't care about anything anymore?"

>"Because there's no point, is there?" she replies.

[Hello Purvis]

>"Utsuho, tell me why you tried to burn everything, please?"

[Blitzer]

>"What is wrong with you? Why don't you think there's no point to life anymore?"
>Inspect Kanako, but not too obviously.

[DracoOmega]

>"Utsuho, tell me why you tried to burn everything, please?"

>"Because I could," she says. "Because I didn't think anyone could stop me. Because that's what this power was meant to do."

>"What is wrong with you? Why don't you think there's no point to life anymore?"
>Inspect Kanako, but not too obviously.

>"And what point do you think there is when this is all I'll ever have?"
>You spare a glance in Kanako's direction. While looking distinctly displeased, she is standing with her arms folded in silence.

[Hello Purvis]

>"Do you still think it is meant for that?"

[DracoOmega]

>"Do you still think it is meant for that?"

>"Well, it's not what she meant me for, anyway." Utsuho practically spits the word out. "But it's all I know how to do."

[Hello Purvis]

>"Perhaps it means little now, but you could have used it to maintain Blazing Hell."