20th Scroll

[kirinofen]

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[The sound cuts in with silence. Abruptly it's shattered with an earsplitting crash of something breaking against the floor.

Yokuhi's voice cuts in, sounding startled and faraway.]

"Taiho?!"

[Her voice is followed by silence. There's a faint noise of movement and Yokuhi

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[revengeisalie]

[Rin has heard the crash and comes running from her room, telling her father that she'll be right back while she's at it.]

What's going on?

[revengeisalie]

Okay.

[Gives her father a glance herself; he smiles at her and comes closer.]

He's very nice! I love my dad.

[kirinofen]

[He chuckles.] I can tell. I guess not everyone had a bad father. That's sort of a relief to know.

[revengeisalie]

[Her expression saddens a little, and she looks to the ground.]

Y-yeah...

[kirinofen]

All over the network it just seems like... everyone had such horrible fathers. I don't understand how any parent could be that mean.

[He looks away thoughtfully. It really didn't make sense to him, especially considering children in other worlds were born more...intimately.]

[revengeisalie]

The more I hear about it, the more it depresses me.

[kirinofen]

[He nods in agreement. Honestly, compared to a lot of people on the network, his father wasn't so bad after all.]

I guess since family is something so important, it impacts you pretty hard.

[revengeisalie]

Of course. They're the closest people to someone from birth... if you aren't orphaned then.

[kirinofen]

[He smiles sadly.] Or abandoned. But I guess... as a kirin, I'm not suppose to even have parents anyway.

[revengeisalie]

What, really not? I didn't know that.

[kirinofen]

It's true. We're born on Mt. Hou from the Shashinboku because a kingdom needs a new kirin, unlike human children who are born when a couple prays to the Heavens.

Honestly, the life of a kirin is really pathetic.

[revengeisalie]

So, basically, you exist for no other reason than to serve your king, and your kingdom.

[kirinofen]

Pretty much. Pathetic, right? Not even our own body belongs to us.

[revengeisalie]

... that's sad.

So... how's Shouryuu-san about this? You fight with him a lot.

[kirinofen]

The life of a kirin is a sad one all right.

I doubt he thinks about it. He's just an idiot. ...But it's not like a dislike him or anything. Just... for a long time, I didn't like kings.

[revengeisalie]

He didn't seem like an idiot to me, and Youko doesn't seem to think so, either.

Still, that's... I'm sorry.