school: byleth

[shaft]

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[divineimpulse]

No.

I won't run from anyone.

But it's not hiding to stay out of the way.

[shaft]

How admirable.

[ He reigns it in- it's not his intention to be antagonizing. That's a fruitless endeavour. ]

Do you believe you're a victim?

[divineimpulse]

No.

[shaft]

Why not?

[divineimpulse]

Because I killed two people.

[shaft]

Only two? [ ... ] You had nothing to do with Sieghart?

[divineimpulse]

No.

I assisted Rupert with Bradley, and killed Crow myself.

Caiman thought I'd killed Sieghart, too. But it wasn't him, and it wasn't me.

[shaft]

So it's just a coincidence that someone decided to frame Denji after you decided that you would use your ability to save him from a false conviction?

[divineimpulse]

I'm not sure. It seems that way.

But I never held the ability to save someone in the first place. For safety, Sakyou asked me to pretend as if I did in exchange for being able to tell the two of you.

[shaft]

[ stares at the ceiling ]

What are you saying? That Sakyou fabricated this power?

[divineimpulse]

No.

The power is real.

I just don't possess it.

[shaft]

[ i hate it here ]

... Does Dimitri know?

[divineimpulse]

I told him.

[shaft]

Okay.

[ this is veering so far off the track he was expecting that he can't even remember what he had planned to ask about ]

[divineimpulse]

Claude.

[she calls out, voice soft, quiet.]

Did you want to ask me something?

[shaft]

[ There is. A lot. Probably something to clear up all of the questions they have about murders and Thursday nights, but. ]

Did you kill Hilda and the others at Gronder?

[divineimpulse]

Hilda retreated with you when you were injured.

[shaft]

[ ? ]

You didn't kill me?

[divineimpulse]

No.

Dimitri injured you, but you were alive.

We didn't pursue.

[shaft]

Why?

[divineimpulse]

Why should we have?

By the end, your troops were shattered, and ours were thin.

Destroying the Alliance was never our goal.

[shaft]

[ He looks for a moment like he doesn't believe it. ]

You didn't seek to conquer Fódlan?

[divineimpulse]

Conquer?

[she blinks, for a moment genuinely confused.]

No.

Why would we?

[shaft]

Dimitri seemed to view me as an enemy when we first appeared here.

I assumed that was why.

[divineimpulse]

[she shakes her head, a little ruefully.]

You were supposed to be on our side for that fight. The sabotaged alliance.

Someone brutally killed our messenger, and things got... muddied.

[she looks genuinely ired by this fact.]