Heishou Pack - Mao Branch Adept Faust/Identity Story
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 Faust |
I understand your point. |
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Faust |
Is the management Faust's insinuation that my unrestrained stubbornness is due to the fact that I am a simple-minded, uneducated swordswoman? Is that what you are implying? |
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Faust |
It is not? Hm. |
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Faust |
The intent behind that expression I observed exists still, though embellished by flowery language it has been. |
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Faust |
Whichever is the case, the Gesellschaft's justification for that request, that I must reconsider my decision after further observation of its intelligence, is understood. |
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Faust |
But I refuse nevertheless. |
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Faust |
I have about two justifications for this decision… |
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Faust |
First: Gesellschaft provides a distractingly overabundant amount of information. Most of them are unnecessary as well, as learning my lord's teachings takes up a great majority of my days. |
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Faust |
Moreover, there is a dearth of righteousness in the intelligence provided by Faust; an overwhelming majority of them are far too… utilitarian. Overreliance on such information will set me on the wrong path, as it has happened to the other Fausts… And such a thing should not be allowed to pass. |
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Faust |
Second: it does not matter what information you share with me. The judgment will not change. |
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Faust |
Faust 'knows it all', isn't that correct? Then you must also know the reason behind my behavior is… |
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Faust |
… Hm. Or is that not exactly true? |
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Faust |
'Faust only knows everything that Faust knows, but does not know what Faust does not know'? The same could be said of any random passerby in the streets of Hongyuan. |
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Faust |
… It seems that the responsibility to illuminate you falls to me, a student of an excellent teacher. |
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Faust |
It happened one night, under the brilliant moonlike artificial light. |
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Faust |
Back then, I was confident in my blade; I was of the belief that, as long as I had a sword, I could endure any kind of hardship. |
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Faust |
Which is why I did not feel the need or the will to access the Gesellschaft, nor for learning. |
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Faust |
That is when I first encountered my lord. |
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 ??? |
Whoops! It's kinda hard for us to chat when you're swinging your sword so violently like that~ |
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Faust |
You jest. It is plain to me that you are not having any difficulties with matching my strikes. |
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??? |
Ha ha… I'm not kidding. Whew, you're really giving me no time to speak. |
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Faust |
If you do not jest, then… I best silence myself for now. |
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??? |
Um~ But I've got this burning question I wanna ask you, so that won't do. |
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Faust |
Haah… do ask. |
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??? |
What do you 'like', Miss Faust?[1] |
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Faust |
Not exactly an apt subject for discussion between enemies locked in battle. |
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Faust |
Or… perhaps this is but an attempt to buy time. |
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??? |
Ha ha… what reason would I have to do something like that? |
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??? |
I've already taken your lord's life, you see. |
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Faust |
……. |
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??? |
You're an Adept of the Mao branch. You've been visiting Yihongyuan every night to decapitate my precious subordinates' lives… |
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??? |
… but the more I thought about it, the more did I realize that I know so little about you as a person. |
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??? |
Well, except for this little detail. |
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??? |
Given that you're still living as a beast… Ah, it seems that the Pinky caucus is still waiting for the right conditions and time to convene, Miss Faust. |
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??? |
Or… should I call you the Tianjiu Star? |
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Faust |
…! |
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??? |
Oh? Your blade stopped. Did you not expect me to ask you that? |
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??? |
If you want to move on from this subject, can you please answer my question from earlier? |
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??? |
What do you 'like', Miss Faust? |
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Faust |
… Blades. The more intimidating and mighty, the better. |
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??? |
Wowzers~ That's so like you~ |
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??? |
But… that wasn't what I was asking. It was more like… a question out of frustration, you know? Miss Faust, you focus only on what you're good at, you never seek out knowledge outside your expertise, you never try to learn new things… |
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??? |
Learning could bring you to new paths, unparalleled paths that no one could even dream of following. |
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Faust |
It is doubtful that there is that much value in the act of learning and questioning. |
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??? |
Of course there is. |
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Faust |
Unlearned as I may be, my path has never been limited by it. |
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??? |
Heh heh… Nothing stops you, does it? You certainly live up to your nickname.[2] |
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Faust |
……. |
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??? |
But unrestrained as you may be, there are paths you do not want to tread. |
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??? |
Come work under me, Miss Faust. |
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??? |
I can teach you so, so many things. |
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??? |
A righteous cause. A battlefield. The means to utilize your qualities. |
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Faust |
What… is it that you wish to do here in Hongyuan? |
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??? |
Hongyuan, as it is now, is but a pale imitation—the Hierarch is unlike a Hierarch should be, and families are unlike how families should be… |
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??? |
So I intend to make everything right. |
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??? |
What Hongyuan needs is… |
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Faust |
……. |
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Faust |
I decided to follow my lord upon hearing his reply. |
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Faust |
… No. Stop it with your inquiries. How many times must I explain that I am already aware of that? |
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Faust |
I am already aware of my lord's questionable behavior. I am also aware of the fact that my lord has prepared an ambitious plan for the Family Hierarch Evaluation. I know all these things. |
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Faust |
I know that he has wielded the favor gained as the precious jade of Daguanyuan, the gem of the Jia family, like a weapon to one by one obtain everything he has ever pursued. |
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Faust |
I know that he has seduced the daughter of the Xue family, for whom there is no place in his heart, to draw many, many of her family's secrets. |
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Faust |
I know that his care for me is but a care for a tool that gives him access to the knowledge of the Gesellschaft. |
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Faust |
I do not need to hear this from Faust. I know them. |
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Faust |
He commits ruthless violence under the great cause of "rectification of names(正名)".[3] |
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Faust |
Even still… I cannot abandon my lord. |
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Faust |
A false virtue it may have been, it has changed me still. |
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Faust |
In this City, where even false charity is a rarity, there is much to be learned from my lord. |
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??? |
Miss Faust, can I talk to you for a minute? |
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Faust |
… Yes. |
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??? |
I just had a little chat with this guy, and he told me that there's an unrighteous person who's bringing something great yet undeserving and excessive to Hongyuan. |
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??? |
People can bring about so much disturbance by trying to wield something that's beyond their capacities, right? |
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??? |
So, can you please go meet that person and give them a little warning? With good decorum and appropriate propriety, of course. |
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Faust |
… The way of conquest is a way still; the mimicry of righteous cause is a form of righteousness still. |
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??? |
Huh? |
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Faust |
It's nothing. Your word is my command, my lord. |
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??? |
Well, don't let me distract you from whatever you were doing. I've got other stuff to do, anyway. |
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??? |
Oh, and don't forget say hello to the other Fausts for me~ |
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Faust |
……. |
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Faust |
He leaves without even waiting for my reply. |
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Faust |
Intentionless(無意) and needless(無必).[4] |
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Faust |
It is becoming of a noble one not to let assumptions bog her down, even if there may truly be venom in my lord's heart. |
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Faust |
I will… not relay his greeting to the Fausts. That must be what Faust wants as well. |
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Faust |
Ending the report. |
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- ↑ The following conversation mirrors a historical conversation between Zilu and Kong Zi, which runs as follows:
Confucius asked: 'What do you like?'
To which Zilu answered: 'Long blades.'
Confucius said: 'That wasn't what I was asking. Only that, with your capabilities, when refined through learning and questioning, you will be unparalleled.'
Zilu said: 'What value does learning hold?'
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Confucius then explained to Zilu how people would end up on erroneous paths when they do not heed good advice, thus the necessity of learning. Zilu further refuted that an unlearned person may also bear innate virtue, and Confucius answered that learning would bestow further improvement and perfection, which finally convinced Zilu. - ↑ This refers to Zilu's nickname
Meizhelan as a member of the Pinky. - ↑ This mirrors the political idea of Kong Zi, who stated that his first measure of governance would be the rectification of names.
- ↑ The Mandarin here refers to the four wrongs Confucius sought to refrain from: 毋意，毋必，毋固，毋我. - one should not be subjective, dogmatic, stubborn, or presumptuous.