wontdieifkilled | Thirty-Fourth Projection

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Thirty-Fourth Projection

[Audio; Action for Violet City]

[Now that the weather has cleared up, Shirou is outside and laying down on the grass, near the pond on the northern edge of town. After thinking for a while, he decides to muse a bit.]

You know...I've never had a mother figure before. I don't remember my birth mother. I had a father figure and a big sister figure, but that was all I had growing up. I used to try to ignore this day when it came, because there was no point in observing it and there was no point in dwelling on it.

So to finally get one now...it's strange. It just feels different. I'm eighteen years old -- though I guess I'm still seventeen back home -- and now I have someone who I should have had all my life.

Well, better late than never, I guess.

[Video; filtered to Irisviel]

Hey, I sent you a package. Did you get it yet?

[Said package is a brand new umbrella. It's pure white, with silver trim, and it's high-quality.]

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[Contemplatively,] Infants... I guess they still need infants.

[Then, quickly,] But parents are useless otherwise! All adults, really. They can pretend to like you, but in the end they'll just abandon you or hurt you!

No. You're wrong about that. I've seen otherwise with my own eyes.

[Spoken rather vehemently.]

And should you really be talking about adults like that to someone who just said he's eighteen?

Oh, you think so? Because I've seen otherwise with my own eyes.

[A pause.]

...What does being eighteen have to do with this?

Then those were just bad parents, that's all. No more, no less. Good parents exist.

...Eighteen is the age of legal adulthood. Once you turn eighteen, the law stops treating you like a minor and starts treating you like an adult.

Heh, as if... the ones who don't betray you just end up being unable to help you.

The law? Who cares about that? But if you wanna sign up to be an idiot adult, then I'm not gonna stop you.

Wrong again. One instance is all I need to disprove you, and I know of at least one.

...Uh. You kind of have to obey the law. That's why it's the law, instead of strong suggestions.

Maybe I'm only wrong so far.

Give them time. Then we'll see who's right.

Have to? The law's just some arbitrary set of rules. Everybody just follows the rules of whoever's strongest, even if it's not whatever law is around.

Too late. There's no chance of that happening now.

Wow, you're really big into Social Darwinism, aren't you?

Social what?

Social Darwinism. The creed is "Survival of the fittest."

...Well, yes, then. That's how life works.

And yet when they tried to apply it, it failed. Doesn't that say something?

What do you mean, applied? It just is!

They tried to apply it to economics. The result was the Great Depression.

[...Well, no one said he knew his history, considering how many steps he's missing.]

[It's okay, she doesn't know enough history to correct him.]

Well, that's because they - whoever that's suppose to be - are trying to control it anyways, yeah? To apply something onto something you've got to hold it down and control it.

And the people who get in charge and try to control those kinds of things are just idiot adults who screw everything up.

Not always. A lot of them knew what they were aiming for and the steps they thought would get there. And there are lots of things that grown, educated people have gotten right.

Yeah, I bet. Like which village to slaughter to win a war?

Like cures for diseases. Humanity's totally gotten rid of polio and smallpox.

[...]

Well... if they're so good, why haven't then cured them all?

Because it takes time. Do you have any idea how more complex something like AIDS is than a chicken pox virus?

...I have better things to do than worry about... weird diseases!

[That's a no.]

Then you don't understand. You still have some growing up to do.

There's a difference between understanding and growing up!

Not in this case. You can't understand until you become more mature.

[Defensively,] There are some things that amount of "maturing" could ever make you understand!

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