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Rosaline, still clearly livid at what's going on, manages to calm her nerves enough to keep listening to Alexis. "Why?"
"We're on the same page. And to be fair, we did not know if we could trust the Krakatoa or Huxley, given what I and my employeer-" She nods in your direction. "-know about them. Now that we recovered the asset, we wish for a simple deal. Nothing involving Valentina. In fact, as a sign of good faith...Luther? Hand her over."
Luther does so with little complaint, handing over the unconscious Valentina over to the corpos. Rosaline quickly moves to carry the young girl in her arms and that was seemingly enough to calm down the enraged Vanni. "...I. Sorry, sorry. The last two weeks has been a lot for me." She fiddles with something on Valentina's neck before a panel opens. Even she had an augment. She pops out a small SD card before closing it up. "Good, good. What's your name?"
"Alexis Morozov."
"I'll remember that. You...did a good thing today-"
"Ooo!" Casey begins to buzz around Rosaline. "Nice outfit! Actually, I know a lot of people back at C-Corp! Very, very good people. See-" She begins to swirl around Rosaline, blabbering her ear off about the most inane bullshit possible. Robbert and Rosaline are both too busy dealing with her to say anything, leaving one last target to convince.
Roland.
He's been staring at your group, especially Max, with a cold and deeply frustrated frown and furrowed eyebrows. The prospect that a bunch of outsiders and his own daughter managed to beat him by such a wide margin has clearly stung his pride.
"This is a sick joke. All of that time having to fucking stomach those two. Having to stomach being here. And I got beaten by a girl with antlers and her god damn lackeys- And you, Elizabeth, what the HELL are you doing here?"
Max grinds her teeth at what you assume is her real name being said outloud. "It's Max. Max is a better name than Elizabeth, Dad. I'm an adult now. You can at least respect that much, no?"
"You think you can act a bit snippy to your old man over what? Having a bunch of nobodies worshipping the ground you step on? Look at them. They're pathetic. I know you can afford better than that, princess." Despite the cruel and harsh words coming out of his mouth, it's hard to really assign malice or hatred towards you and your other allies to any of them. It's nothing personal.
It's clearly moreso the fact you're hanging around <span class="mu-i">Max</span> than anything.
For a moment, you see Max ready to open her mouth to start screaming at him but then, time rewinds for a moment. Seems like your TEMPORAL REWINDER and LUCK INVERTER are kicking in now. With a moment to collect her thoughts, she begins to speak.
>-1 TEMPORAL REWINDER! -LUCK INVERTER!
"Dad, look. You can trust her. You can trust all these weirdos. I know they're not a lot to look at but isn't the fact that we managed to sneak past you and do all of this without you noticing a single thing, I dunno. Doesn't it mean something?"
