crashout | EDELGARD;

Twenty questions. Yes or No questions only.

And I’d answer them for you either way. I’m not being difficult on purpose. But I would like to hear that answer.

[At least he offers her a smile.] I'm not either. It's just...there's a lot going on and trying to make sense of it all while we're missing context hasn't been the most helpful. I appreciate your help.

[Okay. Twenty questions. He's been doing this a lot, admittedly, so it takes a moment to decide on the basics.] Yours is a role where you can protect someone once a week.

Correct.

You also have a role, don’t you?

[...well. He has to take some chances here, so he nods.]

There you go. For my own reasons, I'd like to ask you keep that to yourself for now. [A grin. Hello.] You have to sleep with them to protect them.

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Good. Yes, that’s correct.

And you also have to sleep with someone to protect them, correct?

I do not, actually. [A common theme then. ] By sleeping with them, if the person you choose is targeted you can be awake on Thursday to save them. Like a shield.

Incorrect.

Your role isn’t about protection, is it?

Nope. I'm just choosing to make it that way. [Whatever that means.]

It's something you've been able to do before, back where you're from. Something familiar?

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Not in the slightest.

Your role involves investigating, though, doesn’t it?

You're one of the few to figure that out. [So.]

Yours...is a double-edged sword. It can protect, but it also might hurt if we're not careful.

You did make it a bit easy to guess. Are you able to check whether someone is a demon?

[She sighs, relieved when he says this.]

Precisely. Or rather - there are unknowns.

And yet most of the people I've talked to have no idea. [He shakes his head.] I wish I could, but I can't.

[There's a frown of thought.] The unknowns are that there's no guarantee the person you pick will be involved in anything. Right? That seems to be a common thing.

That is true. But it is also true what you said, that it’s a double edged sword.

Then - does your role allow you to determine what other people have roles?

Congratulations. [That was almost painless.] You can see why I have a specific interest in finding all of them on my own as well.

Mmhmm. You mentioned others. Another investigator and another protector. Are those the only ones you know of?

...you're actually the ninth person I've found. Or eighth, I guess, if we're including myself.

[Um! Really???]

That many? I hadn't known there were any besides Escha. You're certain?

Yes. They've all confirmed for me. There are thirteen roles total, Edelgard. That's why I knew I had to bring it up to you.

[i.e. why he confronted her today.]

That's more than half of us. If it's true that those of us with roles cannot be demons, as Dick believes, then you've nearly found them.

...Dick unfortunately is wrong about that. [Which sucks.] We got confirmation that any of us can still be possessed at any time. That's the other reason I'm trying to find the rest as fast as I can.

I see.

[Now she better understands why Junpei won't just tell her who everyone is.]

And possession - it spreads each week, doesn't it?

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Yes. Until we find the source that's gonna be a thing. Anybody tell you about the hydra theory yet?

Higekiri mentioned it. They're going to keep escaping that way and possessing others? How fruitless.

Carlos told me a while ago that whatever Polly did unleashed a few demonic entities on this ship. It's the reason we had two different demons collide, I think. I agree with you that it's fruitless, but there has to be a reason they keep coming back. There might be something else they're after.

But it sounds like, from what you say, finding them at trial hardly does us any good.

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