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Afterwards, I had donned my cloak again, and he allowed me to share his motor vehicle for travel. We would be passed over the strait that divided the two continents, it was a long journey, and took us across a great bridge that was monstrous in size, spanning miles and miles.
He would take a backroads passage to get us back to Siegesia, and pass from the Trinity's borders into the country of the Wargod. Woldoria, the land of bravest hearts.
This was... unlike how I'd anticipated my journey to start, but now that it has, there's no turning back.
[HALE] "...Excuse me."
'Hm? Yes? What is it?'
[HALE] "You are a Qilin. You are really strange to me."
'...?'
[HALE] "I'd heard of great beasts of a divine nature before, but I'd never thought I'd see one. You Qilin are supposedly creatures of purity itself. They say your kind are incapable of hurting anything, yet you cut down those Samurai in seconds for my sake."
'I could not let another murder happen.'
[HALE] "What changed, though?"
'What do you mean?'
[HALE] "Well... I guess I'm asking, why did you do it? Why save me? Why bother, knowing what you are? Fighting would be... I don't know, just so un-Qilin-like. Did you really do it just because you knew it was the right thing to do?"
'...'
[HALE] "What's your goal, exactly? Why does a full blown god come to a mortals age in a time like this when it seems they've all abandoned us?"
>How do I put this...?
>Explain your purpose, in your own words. Put thought to word for once.
