Second Phase

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After the White Doll awakens mission.

[1]
[Loran is on the ground and dealing with the news that Mr. Heim is dead, the casualties to the town he came to recognize as his home were severe. There was no way console the mistress and now he finds himself walking through Nocis city after the fires have been put out, quite depressed about the whole thing and muttering to himself.]

Why would they have opened fire like that? I don't understand.
Surely she wouldn't have approved this.

[He looks between the wreckage and the White Chalice. Something tells me his easy days were over.]

[2]
[The white haired volunteer that was scurrying around days before? Not so much this time. Now he stands in the White Chalice hanger, gripping a tablet manual and staring at the White Doll- the others said it was a Gundam. So that makes him a pilot now doesn't it?]

This isn't going to work.
Just shipping me off...but of course he's not gonna' listen to me.
...White Doll. I know it's not your fault.

[Guess who got traded for the sake of his town's safety.]

Comments

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[Someone emerges from an alley behind Loran.]

Who is "she"?

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Gah!

[Give him a heart attack why don't you]

N...nobody.

[saikyocivrobo]

Even without my glasses I can see you're trying to hide something, you know.

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I...I guess it is kind of obvious.

[saikyocivrobo]

So... What is it about? Don't tell me if you don't want to talk about it, especially after what happened here. But if it's important, then you have to tell someone. You know how often White Chalice got in danger because someone knew about it but kept it a secret?

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...I think if I should tell anyone though, it should be the people in charge.

[saikyocivrobo]

Right. Don't think I'm interrogating you or anything. But if it's important, then let them know.

...Sorry for what happened to your town. I know how it feels.

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It's alright. I'm sure it was inevitable if it even happened to begin with.

[saikyocivrobo]

Inevitable... Very few things in life are. I don't believe in such thing as destiny.

But none of us knew about this attack up until it happened, yes. We had no way to avoid it.

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Maybe that's true about the attack, but them showing up was inevitable...it doesn't have anything to do with destiny.

[saikyocivrobo]

Just how much do you know about these aliens?

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...They aren't aliens.

[saikyocivrobo]

Who are they, then?

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They're the Moonrace. They're humans that live under the surface of the moon.

[saikyocivrobo]

Really? They must be pretty good at hiding then, because I've been to the Moon and never saw them. It's the first time I heard about them, in fact.

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Yeah...that's because people aren't supposed to know about them.

[saikyocivrobo]

And how do you know about them?

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....

[See, this is why he would rather tell the higher ups first.]

The thing about that is...

[saikyocivrobo]

Guin Lineford knew about their existence, didn't he? And he told you. This is why you had to deliver those robot parts.

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Y-yeah. That's it. He had been trying to negotiate with them over radio, I think.

[saikyocivrobo]

But then the negotiations failed.

He probably didn't expect the attack to happen either, huh? Or least not on this night, and in this city...

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No, I can't say he expected that. Lord Guin is sort of... optimistic in thinking how results will turn out.

[saikyocivrobo]

Hope is important, but so is realism. Wish for the best, expect the worst.

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Mhm...