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[leicesters]

[He takes it in good humour, at least. He can't imagine she'd go through the effort of contacting him just to antagonise him.]

Hah! That's just the price you have to pay in the pursuit of knowledge.

...Really, though, what happened had nothing to do with potions. This time, anyway.

[colchismagecraft]

[You underestimate the lengths she would go to in order to be spiteful Claude- but that wasn't the case here.]

No? Now, why don't I believe you when you say that~

[leicesters]

Believe what you want, but it's the truth. What actually happened is that my familiar decided I needed a long nap.

[colchismagecraft]

A long nap? How odd...I can't say mine's ever done such a thing, and I've been here for quite some time, now.

[leicesters]

In my case, I was missing a few memories, so my familiar knocked me out for a bit so I could remember them. It worked, so I'm grateful to her.

[colchismagecraft]

[Glancing over to her own familiar who, right now, was looking innocent.]

...What a strange thought. I didn't realise it was possible to be missing pieces of ones memories when they're brought here.

Did you learn anything interesting? Not that I imagine you'd trust someone like me with an answer.

[leicesters]

Oh, nothing big. Just saved the land from some undead guy and his army, uncovered a bunch of thousand-year-old secrets, and made peace between two regions that had been in conflict for centuries.

[no biggie!!!]

I finally got to go home, too. Hadn't been back there since I was a kid.

[colchismagecraft]

..."Nothing big." Of course.

[Eyeroll. Either he was making up nonsense or he was being sarcastic- and Claude was the sort that made the distinction hard to tell.

Still- what he said next caught her attention.]

It...sounds like you were away from home for a long time.

[leicesters]

I was. I had to leave... Or maybe it's more accurate to say I ran away.

That's all history now, though. Or it will be, when we're done here and we all get to go home again, so I won't bore you with a sob story.

[Although it does make him curious...] Where will you go, after all this?

[colchismagecraft]

You too, hm...I'd like to hear it, if you have no objections to telling an awful person like me.

[The 'sob story', she means. But she didn't really expect him to tell her that easily.]

...I wonder if we'll really have a choice in the matter. I may need to return home- if not, I intend to search other worlds. There's someone I need to find.

[leicesters]

Hey, don't put words in my mouth. I've never said you were an awful person.

[Although that might just be her own opinion of herself, come to think of it.]

Who are you looking for?

[colchismagecraft]

No? Not awful, or wretched, or evil? Haha~ You don't know me as well as you think you do, in that case.

[That small, evil chuckle was definitely well-practiced- there was a hesitation after that, though, as she considered whether or not to tell him the truth.]

...someone close. The one Archer murdered.

I assume that you'll return home when this is all done, if that option is now open to you again?

[leicesters]

I see. [How she intends to find a dead person he has no idea, but he'll opt to leave it at that for now.]

And yes, I will. I have a lot of responsibilities back home, and a lot of work left to be done.

[colchismagecraft]

[She's still figuring that part out, but if there's a way she can search the multiverse for her Souichirou, she'll take it.]

Trust you to be the sort addicted to their work...I assume this is to make sure that the peace you spoke of stays in place?

[leicesters]

"Addicted"? Don't make me sound like a workaholic! It's more like a passion project than because I just love working, you know.

But yeah, I want to keep the peace, and build on it. Leave the world a better place than I found it in, really.

[colchismagecraft]

How noble of you.

[Half serious, half sarcastic.]

Haha...I wouldn't have thought you'd be the sort to have goals like that. I can't say I've ever been that altruistic, you'll find you get exploited far too easily that way.