>>6048282“And now someone has found out that I have been assigned to a Stranger, possibly one of these traditionalists, and decided to leak that to my father along with the fact said Stranger used his Cheat Skill to, what? Bring me back to life?”
“Don’t think about that last part too hard but yes. However, we can’t rule out it was Lord Beneger of the Lord Inquisitor as well. I heard the Inquisition had to make some pretty hefty concessions to the royal family, this might just be one of them.”
“It would be strange then to send me on missions as dangerous as the ones we’ve been on then should they need to report everything back to my father.”
Marie interjects, “But wasn’t the missions about me and the,” She gets a darker look as she continues to speak, “The other Stranger just rumors when you got them? That’s what Asher said.”
“That’s a-” You blink, “good point. Fine, I doubt we’ll figure out anything else tonight. Thank you, Asher.”
“Right, we should all go to sleep and-”
“I’m not done!” You continue, “You’ve yet to elaborate on my death. Do that.”
You make him look as if he sucked on a lemon before he speaks, “Remember the kidnapper? How he exploded? You were standing right next to him the first time.”
“And you were caught in the blast as well I take it?”
“No…”
“Ah,” You say. There’s not much else to say.
As if to break the tension in the room Marie shoots her hand into the air, “Wait do me next! How many times did I kick it?”
“Uh, you got shot on the motorboat and died a few times when we fought the noble-class robots in the clan settlement.”
“So I didn’t kick their asses first try?”
“No, you didn’t.”
“Shucks.”
“ Did you just say ‘shucks?’”
“Hey Asher,” You break into the conversation, “How many times did you die?”
Again with the lemon-sucking face, “A lot.”
“And exactly how many is that?”
“I stopped tracking after seventy. Almost all of them were after we got separated and I, well, I fucked up quite a bit for lack of a better word. My fault completely, so don’t even worry about it.”
“You said earlier that-”
“Lorina, everything I do regarding my life is of my own volition. Don’t worry about it.”
It takes a moment but eventually, you nod, only a bit unsettled, “Alright.”
“Now I think we should all go to bed and think about what our next course of action should be tomorrow. You guys can figure out which one of you gets the bed.”
>Is there anything else you’d like to say tonight? [Write-in]Come morrow what do you intend to do?
>Begin investigating on your own, but what? And where? [Choose between the Inquisition Politics or Stranger Hunt and how you’d like to proceed]>Get in contact with your family to try and smooth things over, this time not caught off guard>Get that meeting with Lord Beneger>Go to somewhere else in the city [Where?] 