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I have a question.

[Gilgamesh goes from looking at the "camera" to turning the book around to see what he's seeing - two of the 'berserk' residents wandering around the Palace district.]

Are we supposed to kill these things, or are we putting them down gently?

[Two bursts of light lash out from behind the camera and impact the affected citizens in the head, knocking each one over with a crack and laying them unconscious (possibly comatose) on the pavement. For a split second before the projectiles disappear, it's clear that that they were, in fact, swords - launched hilt-first.]

I ask because on the one hand, they sure as hell look like zombies. On the other hand, I just know there are a bunch of bleeding hearts here who don't want me killing things that might be human. But on the other hand: zombies. Also if they were normal humans this would probably kill them anyway. Since it's not, again: zombies.

I just wanted to clarify before I have to answer some thrown-together farce of a trial later from one of your knightly-types. Saber. Let me know, though, they're starting to get everywhere.

[Another crack of the same type indicates Gilgamesh has smashed another person's head off-camera somewhere before he ends the feed.]

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Not Ishtar scary, but a little bit.

[She pouts at that.] I don't bite, you know.

[And then she smiles.] Or it takes a lot to incur my wrath anyways!

[Is she joking? Is she serious? It's hard to tell!]

That would be another one of those "modern" social ideas, wouldn't it? Women not biting?

[Gilgamesh is never serious, so it's really hard to tell which part's the joke.]

[She chuckles softly. Right, she needs to avoid the more modern expressions with him, doesn't she?] Pretty sure it doesn't just count for girls. It just means that I don't have any intention of hurting you or trying to, so you don't need to find me scary.

[She's actually pretty uncomfortable with the idea of someone finding her intimidating.]

[Gilgamesh puts the book down to go start tying up the goons he knocked out. Presumably out of politeness, since he is laughing loudly in the background.]

Hey, it's not funny!

[She's being serious here!]

[Eventually, he comes back over, looking down at the book while he's carrying an unconscious "zombie".]

Forgive me. I'm about as scared of you as you are of a puppy. I'm just enjoying having the approval of a cute girl, is all.

[Guess who's pouting.] I know some fierce puppies, so!

[She can't help but laugh though. With everything going on, it's kind of nice to have a conversation like this as a distraction.]

Well, as long as you don't kill anyone you have mine.

I'll bear that in mind when I'm making this kind of decision.

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