i_speak_softly | Seventy-Second Theory [Voice]

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Seventy-Second Theory [Voice]

[Don has been living in the tunnels since the beginning of the last experiment, and for that time he's been almost entirely absent from the journals as well. Today, he finally re-establishes contact with the outside world.]

Has anyone ever considered building another village elsewhere in the enclosure? [...] Don't we have an organization that's always looking for that kind of volunteer work? The "Blue Viscera"?

[The transmission ends there, but later in the day there's another one:]

If anyone is willing, I would be very honored to have a new sensei. I'm fourth-dan in bojutsu but I haven't been formally trained in two years.

[After dark, he seals up his lair and goes home. When he reaches House 55, he doesn't announce himself, but goes silently to the winter room and re-closes the door behind him.]

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Did you mean Brave Vesperia or Blue Rogues? Because that sounds like what Brave Vesperia does.

... Yes?

[One of those.]

I'm the head of Brave Vesperia... were you interested in joining it?

Not joining; more like... hiring? [Is that the right word?]

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You are? Really? That's great! What do you need us to do?

Well... build a village. But, I mean, only if other people think it's a good idea. I don't need one just for myself.

[... he can't have heard that right.]

An entire village? But... what for?

The enclosure is pretty big now, but almost all of us live in one part of it. It just seems a little silly.

I guess so, but isn't easier like that? I mean, this way everyone is all in one place instead of having to go all the way across the enclosure to visit someone.

If we built the new villages near the teleporters, it would hardly make a difference.

You mean like out on the beach?

And in the mountains. Who wouldn't want to live there?

... a lot of people? Sure, it's really pretty, but it's also kind of... I don't know. Isolated?

Precisely. If there were a small village, it would be less isolated while also not being as crowded as the town we have now.

I guess I've just gotten so used to the village that I don't think of it as being crowded. It feels almost cozy to me.

Believe me, it's a lot less crowded than where I'm from. I just can't help noticing the uneven distribution of residents.

I think that's pretty normal... people want to live near their friends, so it only makes sense that most people would end up living in the same place.

Maybe it's just me, then.

[Since nobody else has expressed interest in the idea.]

I don't think it's a bad idea! I'm sure there are some people who would be happy living away from the village. Aren't there a few people who live out in the forest or down by the lakes?

A few, but those are the people who really like to be away from the crowd.

I think you'd have to if you wanted to live all the way out there. I mean, the lakes are nice and all, but it takes a couple of hours just to walk there.

True. But it's a good thing, for some people, and I wouldn't want to interfere with them.

Yeah. They should be able to have their peace and quiet if that's what they want.

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