duel 10. text

[puzzlingly]

if a chicken says
"all chickens are liars"
is the chicken telling the truth?

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[abbatis]

That still doesn't change it. A lie is a lie.

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[puzzlingly]

pesky little chicken

the more you take
the more you leave behind
do you know what they are?

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[abbatis]

Ah, so we're exchanging riddles now?

Answer is footsteps, right?

When you use me, you throw me away. But when you don't need me anymore you pull me back in. What am I?

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[puzzlingly]

right

an anchor

are you in a boat sort of mood too?

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[abbatis]

Correct.

I can't say that I am.

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[puzzlingly]

not too eager about the gods and their antics?

[abbatis]

Not really. The less I have to do with them the better.

[puzzlingly]

you do understand that out survival depends vastly on them right?

[abbatis]

There is very little than they can do for me.

[puzzlingly]

what do you mean?

[abbatis]

Just what I said. I don't need anything from them to get by so I don't see why should I be working for them.

[puzzlingly]

working for them? thats how you see it?

[abbatis]

I think that applies to the current situation where they ask us willingly to give our energy.

Other times we don't have much of a choice.

[puzzlingly]

they dont have much of a choice either

[abbatis]

of course not. they need our energy to survive, right.

What does that make us then? Standing buffet for them?

[puzzlingly]

sure if you wanna feel that way

[abbatis]

How do you feel about this, then?

[puzzlingly]

not like cattle that i can assure you
we are in this together they need us as much as we do
you say there is little they can do for you but there is still something am i wrong?

[abbatis]

There could be. But I can manage without them perfectly fine.

[Or.. he manages, to be honest..]

So you don't mind their little tricks? Forcing the feelings upon you and throwing you in potentially dangerous situations because of it.

[puzzlingly]

of course i do
but sometimes its necessary
you must understand that they dont do it out of spite

[abbatis]

Aren't you obedient one.

Believe me. I understand that better than most people, I think. One must to do everything in their power to survive after all. But that goes both ways.

[puzzlingly]

and arent you a little pretentious?

if you do you should stop trying to sell the idea that we are the victims here

[abbatis]

That's not how I see this either. I'd like to think we don't have to be victims, as you put it. But for that to happen we need to have a choice.

[puzzlingly]

id like to believe we do

「Call him naive if you wish, he knows it.」

[abbatis]

And my choice is not to get involved with Gods anymore than what I have to.