1. Well, you are looking robust today. Let us get that [cdb]coat of yours glowing, shall we?
  2. Hey, Ferdinand.
  3. Hello, Leonie. Have you some need of me?
  4. I did a little detective work and learned something: You're the weird one.
  5. I fear I do not take your meaning. How exactly [cdb]am I "weird"?
  6. You're a noble who delights in cleaning out stables [cdb]and maintaining filthy equipment.
  7. And among the Imperial nobles, you're the only one [cdb]who does those kinds of things when it's not your [cdb]specific responsibility.
  8. Which means I was right—Empire and Alliance [cdb]nobles are all the same.
  9. Mmm. I think I understand what you are trying [cdb]to say.
  10. Certainly among those you investigated, I am the [cdb]only one who puts such ideas into action.
  11. But that is, if you would forgive me, a surface-level [cdb]assessment. The reality beating at the heart of the [cdb]matter is quite different indeed.
  12. OK, what does that mean?
  13. True nobles think as I do, inside their heads.
  14. It just so happens that I am the only one who turned [cdb]thought into deed on this particular occasion.
  15. So if you believe those actions to be strange, you are [cdb]saying the thoughts of all of them are strange as well.
  16. Which means you find all nobles of the world—myself [cdb]among them—to be strange.
  17. Are you trying to confuse me? Because it's working.
  18. How do you reach a conclusion like that? I'm telling you, you're the only weird one.
  19. We appear to be arguing past one another.
  20. Seems like it—but I'm still right.
  21. Then I am left with no choice but to make you [cdb]understand that I am the right sort of noble!
  22. And I'll have to make you understand there aren't [cdb]actually any other nobles like you!
  23. Hmph!
  24. Urgh!
  25. Goodness, whatever is the matter with me? It is out of [cdb]character for me to be so obstinate.
  26. An understanding like this ought never be forced [cdb]upon a person.
  27. My behavior was ill-befitting a noble, Leonie. Please allow me to apologize.
  28. Nah, I got pretty heated there myself.
  29. At the end of the day, you're taking charge and being [cdb]helpful, and that's what counts.
  30. It doesn't really matter if other nobles would [cdb]ultimately do the same thing or not. So...sorry.
  31. You must think nothing of it. However, I believe a [cdb]thought has just come to me...
  32. Ultimately, the problem is not me—it is that you [cdb]mistrust the nobility as a whole.
  33. That being the case, I must redouble my efforts to put [cdb]my philosophy into action so as to make others of my [cdb]stature understand the correct way of things.
  34. I am certain this will rid us of the selfish sort of nobles [cdb]you imagine to be lurking around every corner.
  35. Wait. I mean, that'd be pretty great, but...
  36. If nobles start taking the initiative to work [cdb]and stop looking down on commoners, doesn't that [cdb]just...make them commoners?