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"My /whole journey/ is tiring. Of course I want to know where she is but it's not just her I look out for, literally /anyone/ who I've encountered and has asked me for help I've stopped everything in order to help them out. I want to protect them all, but it's getting so monotonous that every single person wants or expects something from me. I never ask for anything for fuck sake, why can't they be the same?"
She finally finishes the Lopunny, depriving the room of its mind-guzzling incense, "So you want to protect as many people as possible while doing as little work as possible. That seems to be what I'm aiming at here. Mm, one more question, then you can go: How sure are you about your love for that girl--The Lass--, was it genuinely free-will experimentation from you, or was your deterring conscious further derailing you from your current mindset? Now that you've finally realized the farces at play here, I'm not so sure you even /feel/ like protecting anymore."
>What does Calem say next?