This, Naoki thought, was the best mean of transportation she'd ever experienced. This "Invitation" was the real stuff, teleportation so smooth that it felt even more comfortable than taking a simple step forward.
It was probably better than things she hadn't tested too. A taxi seemed comfy but took time to navigate the streets. Even the WARP train sounded less nice, with how you shared it with many passengers.
This smelled like money.
"I have to admit, I am surprised that we haven't even heard from the Head yet," Angela commented.
"Nah, that's not shocking," Roland shrugged.
"Even after we did non-negligible damage to the Liu? I would have thought an Association would get us noticed."
"Fair. But it would probably take us booking the Hana for an intervention from the Head. They rarely get themselves directly involved, you know. We might still make it safely."
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"Is it common to have several Fingers fighting over territory?" Angela asked.
"It's not *uncommon*, but here it's a bit more... free-for-all than usual. It's not often that a new sector with no previous Syndicate presence is up for grabs, after all."
"You mean the Nest, that lost L Corp's protection."
"Exactly. You'll soon be ready to be a true City denizen!"
"... Does the Liu Association have any chance to win this?"
"It's not their job."
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Knowing the City is absurdly populated is one thing, but finally getting a glimpse into it is another. Hints of the population density are everywhere Angela can see crowds or buildings through the Invitations.
It puts the rampage of the Pianist and, later, of the Crying Children into perspective, too. How could you avoid any danger from hitting so many people when they are forced to live so close to each other? It's just impossible.
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"I don't get why Binah is allowed to run a Floor," Roland complained.
"Why?" Chesed prompted.
"She's an Arbiter! And she's never doing any work. It's obvious she would backstab us all if Angela didn't have that much control!"
"Ah, but is this knowledge or prejudice? She's not an Arbiter anymore, you know~"
"So what? You trust her?"
"I do trust her to work alongside us. If she hopes for a different ending, that's for the future to see~"
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Gebura could understand Roland. She had gained enough clarity of mind to not lie to herself anymore. Not about her weaknesses.
The pain of failing to protect someone important could turn into the most burning, blinding hatred. She had felt it. She'd lost herself to it until the Manager had broken her out of it.
So she knew why Roland was making the whole Library shake, but she would show him the real meaning of the Courage to Protect.
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She had never thought she would, one day, leave the City. Here she is, though, looking at it from the outside, back in the Outskirts where everything started. (It's one last loop. The irony.)
As she stares at the City from the top of the Library, she wonders if that place she dreamed of belonging in had always looked so busy yet so small. Like an ant colony, never stopping, crowded with life, but also unaware of how huge the world is.
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"Seriously, how do these work?" Roland muttered, poking at an Assistant Librarian wearing a Sweeper page and looking supremely uncomfortable.
"Do you really need to experiment on your colleagues?" Angela asked, unimpressed.
"Look, it's the first time I got so close to Sweepers, and now we can basically take our time trying to see what's the deal with that creepy tank, and the tubes... wait, are the weapons hooked to that?"
"Read the Books."
Angela raised a perplexed brow when Roland fled Natural Sciences, an expression of slight but persistent horror on his face. She walked in; Tiphereth was, of course, looking very smug.
"Managed to break him?" Angela asked.
"Well, he was back on his bullshit of calling me a kid. So I retaliated."
"Now I'm curious. What was so effective?"
"I called him Uncle. Apparently that made him feel very old, so I added he'd hit it off with Hokma..."
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