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|| his voice changing as his mental state degrades more and more 😔

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( smiling right back at her ).
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would.
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“ alrght ... i am sorry , i was just messing around ...
won't do it again if it hurts you , i promise. ”

arms open wide with a smirk on his face.
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“ perhaps— i never really tried, but certainly not in this
form. ”
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“ wouldn't it be better if you named a price straight
away than beating around the bush , hoping to
may be get what you are looking for? ”
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“ n-no, miss castorice ... i am not sure if i ever told
you back in aedes elysiae, we used to have a
snow white puppy — we called him 'snowy.' he
was very cute. ”
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phainon is ( almost ) certain cipher would NEVER want to hurt him physically, after all she cares for the guy, no ? finally, turning around to face the other — not wanting to possibly explore that remaining one percent.

“ cipher— hello. ”

his lips curled, forming a smile.
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“ how would i be able to compensate you ..? i have never been rich. ”
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...

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her footsteps are heard, he is aware a certain someone is behind him and yet ... still no reaction from him.
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would she do that to HIM ?
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right in front of her apparently.
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catnip, huh.
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|| lmao

black tide. ”

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“ after cyrene and i figured the truth behind amphoreus thanks to lord lygus, we agreed to protect everyone beyond amphoreus' false sky by fooling the system and creating an endless flame-chase journey that would be reset with every era nova, after i collected the 12 coreflames instead of the

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she wants his attention so badly that she's purposely failing at stalking ? how cute. ~ he's going to pretend that she's good enough, and he hasn't figured it out.

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“ i am more surprised they forgot to mention i apologized
and even made sure it would be fixed the very next
day ... ”

he couldn't help, but frown.
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on her saber's banner, getting me an e1 saber accidentally.

no LC so far... and i'm kinda at the point where i need to grind and farm tickets with no guarantees on her LC. this is painful.

|| after pulling on saber's banner i lost the 50-50 to a 5* i didn't have before (not great, not terrible. fu xuan) then, i got saber in like 20 pulls.

and then i did 13 pulls on her LC banner, got nothing, then got another 40 pulls from the starlight embers, but accidentally wasted a 10x pull

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“ which i also had to kill countless times, just so
the black tide didn't take the coreflames .... ”

phainon said and lowered his head, in reality
there was nothing for cyrene to be jealous
of, it seemed.
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she would no longer be restricted, and would be
able to roam free within this space, even approach
him.

“ indeed, that is not how i originally looked like, still
handsome though. ”

an attempt to ease any remaining tension.
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phainon nodded, though he did not mean what she
meant by being able to relate to some extent, he
could only guess something similar had happened
to her ? he could only speculate though.

closing his eyes, the barrier around her vanished
in an instant. from this point and on, +

|| fate x hsr collab starts tomorrow, i am so excited!

fate muns, reminder you are always welcome to interact with my phainon!!

|| thinking about making mikhail char legwork (not misha).