Blade Lineage Salsu Don Quixote/Identity Story

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Identity Story

Speaker	Dialogue
Blade Lineage Salsu Outis	Stop, STOP!
	The one seated opposite the child shouted indignantly. The child stopped just as she was about to chug the liquor straight from the bottle.
Blade Lineage Salsu Don Quixote	H-huh? Wherefore hast thou shouted so...?
Blade Lineage Salsu Outis	We are no mere peasants, Don Quixote. We do *not* drink straight from a bottle.
Blade Lineage Salsu Don Quixote	N-no...?
	The other child, furious and frustrated, sighed deeply and shut her eyes with exasperation.
	They were members of the Blade Lineage on the run... but as soon as they clear their names, as soon as they can return to S Corp... they will be taking jobs as personal guards of the high-ranking officials.
	And that meant that they would have to know high society etiquette by heart in case they had to join them for a meal. The other child's head began to fill with all kinds of terrible faux pas shenanigans that this child would put herself into.
Blade Lineage Salsu Outis	One must drink from a cup, not the bottle. That is the proper drinking etiquette.
Blade Lineage Salsu Outis	Once the cup is empty, and only when it is empty do you refill it for another drink.
Blade Lineage Salsu Don Quixote	... Yet... wherefore?
	The child looks back with a genuinely puzzled expression.
Blade Lineage Salsu Don Quixote	'Tis more work for the same amount of alcohol, is it not? To drink from such a petite bowl...
Blade Lineage Salsu Outis	... It is to prevent one from getting completely intoxicated while maintaining compo—
Blade Lineage Salsu Don Quixote	Guugh! Cough, cough!
	Whatever the other child said, it didn't register in this one.
	The child began chugging straight from the bottle...
	Perhaps it was the unexpected flavor, perhaps it was the piercing aroma. Or maybe it was just that strong of a liquor.
	... She immediately expelled the entirety of the bottle's contents like a fountain spray.
Blade Lineage Salsu Outis	…….
	It need not be said that the lecturing child was completely showered in whatever burst forth from the child's mouth.
Blade Lineage Salsu Don Quixote	I-I...! 'Twas not mine intention to—
Blade Lineage Salsu Don Quixote	The flavor was... simply too different from what I'd...
Blade Lineage Salsu Outis	…….
Blade Lineage Salsu Don Quixote	... 'Tis made of rice, is it not? I had thought with quite the confidence that its flavor would be no different from that of sikhye or gamju...
Blade Lineage Salsu Outis	What did I say? What did I just say?
Blade Lineage Salsu Don Quixote	Eek!
Blade Lineage Salsu Outis	I just told you to drink from the cup, little by little.
Blade Lineage Salsu Outis	If you had listened, this would not have happened.
Blade Lineage Salsu Don Quixote	I-I mean...
Blade Lineage Salsu Outis	Speak properly! Though we may be of the same rank, at this precise moment I am your instructor and superior! You will do well to address me as one!
Blade Lineage Salsu Don Quixote	Y-yes ma'am!
Blade Lineage Salsu Outis	First! You are wielding your chopsticks in a manner most improper!
Blade Lineage Salsu Don Quixote	Uh, this was merely to free my other hand for the bottle—
Blade Lineage Salsu Outis	Behold! This! Is how you properly wield a chopstick! Your sloppy technique is a disgrace...
	... The other child's lecture continued without end.
	At this point, it was starting to sound like she was just unloading all of her frustrations on the child for the sake of unloading them, but...
	... it *was* the child's fault, no? Actions do have consequences.
Blade Lineage Salsu Outis	... And I will leave it at that.
Blade Lineage Salsu Don Quixote	Agh...
Blade Lineage Salsu Outis	Have you completed your reconnaissance? I have been waiting many days to hear your reports.
Blade Lineage Salsu Don Quixote	Ahm. I have discovered in my journeys about five different respectable locations in the Backstreets.
Blade Lineage Salsu Outis	Hm, that is good news indeed. Yet I must also inquire you about Kurokumo Clan's—
Blade Lineage Salsu Don Quixote	Ahem! Worry not thy heart! I have spied on the Kurokumo Clan curs as they dined!
Blade Lineage Salsu Don Quixote	... 'Tis in two days.
	The liquor in the other child's cup rippled as her hand twitched ever-so-slightly.
Blade Lineage Salsu Outis	Indeed... A match catches fire when struck.
Blade Lineage Salsu Outis	Yet we must survive. Persist. And one day... we will find ourselves an opportunity. That is what our mentor has told us.
Blade Lineage Salsu Outis	You have done well, Don Quixote. Venturing so deep into enemy territory...
Blade Lineage Salsu Don Quixote	Heheh, a handful of them did notice my trail...
Blade Lineage Salsu Don Quixote	... But they have all been taken care of.
	The child held up her blade and spoke casually. It was spoken with the same casual cadence as though she had just swatted a few specks of dust from her cloak.
	Though they may not have started out as members of a Syndicate wandering the Backstreets, the reason the members of Blade Lineage have no hesitation in cutting people down...
	... is that they have all each been slayers for a long time. Blade Lineage or not.
	Yet, there is a difference.
Blade Lineage Salsu Outis	…….
	That the blade they used to wield in service of others... is now for no one else but their own.

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