school: mandricardo

[shaft]

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[shaft]

Oh, I'm just doing some reading. There's a lot of things that I've encountered here that I'm unfamiliar with.

[ Like Halloween.

He peers at Mandricardo's books. ]

And you?

[duranduel]

Oh, uh. Just history stuff.

[Some Middle Ages books! Fun! There's even a book on Charlemagne.]

[shaft]

Oh? [ He perks up. ] That's one of my favourite subjects. What exactly are you reading about?

[duranduel]

...Um. Myself, if you would believe it?

[shaft]

Yourself? [ He looks puzzled. ] Have people written books about you?

[duranduel]

...No. That's the point.

[...]

Uh. Well. It's more like...I'm just on the side of a great legend of history, that's all.

[shaft]

You mean you're... a sidekick?

[duranduel]

[He cringes.]

No. I'd call myself a third-rate villain.

[shaft]

[ He did mention his regrets earlier. ]

So you're checking to see if you're mentioned in any of the accounts?

[duranduel]

...Yeah, I suppose. Though its not really turning out great.

[shaft]

Oh? What've you found so far?

[duranduel]

...

Stuff about my country. About the reign of Charlemagne, the Emperor. His stature in myth, and legend. And I'm just a small part of a poem.

[shaft]

... Does that bother you?

[ he can't really tell with mandricardo is aiming for here ]

[duranduel]

...

[A huff.]

Of course it does. Imagine that. You do so much, and in the end...you're nothing in the scope of history. Then again...I made so many mistakes, maybe that's a good thing.

[shaft]

Maybe it's a sign that your mistakes aren't as bad as you thought they were? Otherwise you would've been scorned as a tyrant.

[ Is that any consolation? ]

[duranduel]

[He looks. Exhausted.]

The mistakes I made were tied to me being a tyrant, Claude. I told you. I'm was a third-rate villain.

[shaft]

[ Claude's going to take his arm to guide him to sit down. ]

And what would you have rather been?

[duranduel]

H-Hey...

[Pouting! Don't tug!]

That's...a complicated question. In my life, I left the throne for...certain things and became an adventurer. And even then I was...well. My mishaps were many.

I don't know. I don't think I could...go back and fix things by simply changing who I was. I liked being an adventurer, though.

[shaft]

You were a king? [ wait, he didn't mention that? ] And you left the throne... that was before your death, wasn't it?

[duranduel]

...

[haha! surprise! the timid worrywart was leader of a nation the entire time!]

Yeah. I was a king. I guess...I still am a king, in a way. Even when I left the throne in my life, I was still referred to as such.

[shaft]

... Your Majesty Mandricardo.

[duranduel]

[D8<]

You are like the third person to do this! S-Stop!

[shaft]

You don't like it?

[duranduel]

[Kind of an indignant blush over here.]

I-It's just...I left the throne, so it feels like it's too much. I didn't do much as a king, just see me as an adventurer.

[shaft]

Why did you leave, anyway?