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Wow, you're my official hero, Shrike.

...I was... pretty angry, but I guess I'm getting better at dealing with it?

I suppose it's said that words can cut as well as blades, and if it's in defense of all of you—it's a lot easier for me to take up those arms.

Being able to move to protect others... that's really cool.

I'm definitely not cool!

...but I want to try and be that kind of person, I think, for all of you.

... Mm, you really are the ideal for me.

[ Wait. ]

- Inspiration, I mean. I want to be able to be that kind of person too.

Somehow I feel like you wouldn't have to do that much work to get there.

...I think maybe I said this to Silver while I was sobering up, which was probably a mistake, but I think of you as sort of a brother, you know.

... That probably got him cranky, yeah. But also he has no room to talk when he's been calling someone his big sister and someone else his son.

[ Also all of Wild City's everything. ]

It's... true, that's a touchy subject for us. But you've been a really reliable and steady person to me since you've arrive and it means a lot to me. You're easily a senpai figure to me, a beloved one. And even if it's hypocritical of me to say so when I get cranky about Silver's relationships, you'd be what I want from an older sis.

You are like an older sis.

...

[ oh, she's getting misty-eyed, a little— ]

I'm really glad, I... didn't really get along with my family growing up, I think, so... it feels a little selfish of me sometimes to think of things here that way, but.