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Huh? Where am I?
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Huh? Where am I?
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Oh good, you're awake. Not sure I would've been able to sleep at night with your, heh, blood on my hands.
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Gyah!
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Aah!
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Who are you?
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Who are you?
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Hah, now that is a tricky question. For the moment, why don't you call me Arval?
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Am I...dead?
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Am I...dead?
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No, not yet—and you're not a good listener, either. Did I not just say how pleased I am that you're still alive?
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Regardless, I am a being who exists on the edge of dreams and reality. You may call me Arval.
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I know your voice. I...dreamed about you.
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I know your voice. I...dreamed about you.
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Strange. I have no such recollection.
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Regardless, I am a being who exists on the edge of dreams and reality. You may call me Arval.
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Arval, huh...
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Arval, huh...
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But for now, let me speak plain: You are slated to die.
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Right now, I'm the only thing holding your meager life together—and to be blunt, it's beginning to tire me.
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Um, thank you?
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Um, thank you?
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Oh! Oh my! That's the first time anyone has ever shown me gratitude—and I must say, I like it very much.
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Hear me well! You are a crucial piece of this world's cyclical... Ugh. No, this will never do. You're far too groggy to absorb what I'm saying.
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For now, I needn't tell you how you'll get back on your feet—I need only convince you that you will.
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Is this a dream? I remember collapsing, but then...
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Is this a dream? I remember collapsing, but then...
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You're half right. Which also means you're half wrong. But full marks for effort!
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I don't understand. I'm already up and about.
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I don't understand. I'm already up and about.
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Ah, perhaps here you are, but not in reality where it counts.
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Heh. Your cluelessness is actually quite charming. I think you're starting to grow on me.
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Still, the important thing is what you do after you wake.
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And what should that be?
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And what should that be?
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Recall, please, how the Ashen Demon bested you. Came within an inch of snuffing out your life.
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If you attempt the fight again the same way, you will reach the same conclusion.
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This would force me to step in once more, which would be most annoying—and also rather counterproductive, if I'm honest.
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You don't need to worry. I won't lose next time!
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You don't need to worry. I won't lose next time!
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Although who's to say when that time will come?
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Although who's to say when that time will come?
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Who indeed.
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Then I'll get stronger. The man I am now will seem like a little kid in comparison.
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Then I'll get stronger. The woman I am now will seem like a little kid in comparison.
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And one day, I will surpass the Ashen Demon. I swear it.
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And one day, I will surpass the Ashen Demon. I swear it.
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Indeed.
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My captain and comrades are dead. The company is finished.
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My captain and comrades are dead. The company is finished.
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So there's only one thing I can do: start over.
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So there's only one thing I can do: start over.
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Huh, I thought you to be more sentimental. Did they not take you in? Care for you?
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Gold's the only thing that ever held us together— and death is something we're all too used to.
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Gold's the only thing that ever held us together— and death is something we're all too used to.
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I never knew my real parents, and I lost the mother who raised me. Partings just come easy to me, I guess.
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I never knew my real parents, and I lost the mother who raised me. Partings just come easy to me, I guess.
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The best way to honor my fallen comrades is by training hard and growing even stronger.
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The best way to honor my fallen comrades is by training hard and growing even stronger.
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Then I'll crush Jeralt's Mercenaries, and the Ashen Demon with them!
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Then I'll crush Jeralt's Mercenaries, and the Ashen Demon with them!
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That's what I'm going to live for now.
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That's what I'm going to live for now.
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Oh, but I like your spirit! Though I expected no less from my partner in destiny.
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I'm sorry, what?
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I'm sorry, what?
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Yes, I suppose that was a bit sudden. I should remember: Take intimacy in smaller steps.
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The point is that I'm here to guide you— and I promise to help you find the strength to see your dreams realized.