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[worldend_dominator]

Recently, due to the Tower's experiments, I have either been obsessively searching for Maria or mistaking people for her. If this has happened to you, then I sincerely apologize.

--Rosa Ushiromiya

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[worldend_dominator]

I am not a child.

[Has she not made this clear enough in their last conversation?]

[blackwitch]

[ Sorry, Evatrice's just forever going to insist on it.. ]

Kids will always be kids! Especially when they're stupid..!

[worldend_dominator]

By that logic, you would be no more than a child yourself, Beatrice.

[blackwitch]

Sure, I'm a kid. But the difference is that I'm an actually smart one.

[ hey, she's not going to deny she's a kid herself when she goes around calling others 'grannies'.. ]

[worldend_dominator]

Smart only at playing your cruel games. You do not know much of anything else.

[blackwitch]

... And what exactly do you think I don't know about? And at least name something that actually matters, got it?

[worldend_dominator]

How to manage relationships of any kind, besides one of being everyone's enemy. You don't understand love or parenthood or even responsibility.

[blackwitch]

I said something that actually matters just now, didn't I? Are you aside from stupid just incapable of reading too, huuuuh? I don't need something lame like that, what's a witch going to do with something as stupid as love or kids? I'll be young forever!

[worldend_dominator]

And what of friends? Is the Witch fine being forever alone?

[blackwitch]

Sure. Who needs friends when someone like me can have fun by herself perfectly?

[ Okay, maybe she actually had fun killing things together with Black Battler. Hence why she was pissy over him leaving this place. But not like she's going to admit that. ]

[worldend_dominator]

That sort of thinking is why you're immature

[Her time with the human Beatrice was short and tainted with memories of the Witch Beatrice's deeds...but it had been fun...]

[blackwitch]

Aren't the more mature ones the ones who don't need to rely on anything? I'd say the weak people who constantly need to go hide themselves by staying with other people are more immature than me..!

[worldend_dominator]

And what about those who would protect people who are precious to them? Are they still hiding themselves?

[blackwitch]

They're just morons! Fighting for something completely worthless like that, what a waste of time! They might as well give up and die right away..!

[worldend_dominator]

How do you know it's worthless if you never tried it?

[She almost wants to ask the Witch if she is afraid, but holds off.]

[blackwitch]

I've already seen it. Isn't your older sister the prime example of it? That granny gave up on her own dreams to instead get dreams for her husband and son.. how stupid, she could've gone way far on her own!

That's why people like that are pathetic..!

[worldend_dominator]

[Reading through the text makes Rosa shiver. This girl, who bore Eva's face, also seemed to know Eva better than she knew Rosa. She has to wonder at their connection.]

That was oddly detailed. But Big Sister Eva...I'm sure even if her life ended abruptly, that she lived a happy life.

[Looking at what she just wrote, she has to wonder who she's trying to convince. The Witch, or herself?]

[blackwitch]

[ .. 'Even if her life ended abruptly'? Rosa was the one who died on the island, not Eva, right?

But leaving that aside, she has to ask-- ]

And why are you so sure of that?

[worldend_dominator]

Because of the pride that she takes in speaking about her child.

[blackwitch]

That's exactly the stupid thing. How can anyone expect to be happy when they're just trying to make someone else succesful? True happiness is when you accomplish your own dreams..!

[worldend_dominator]

Because family can be part of a dream.

[It was Rosa's dream too. Marry a good man and have a happy family that would be different from the one she grew up in.]

[blackwitch]

Family isn't a dream. It's nothing more than an illusion or a distraction!

... Besides, shouldn't you know just exactly what family is like, Rosa? [ you know, bullied by her three older siblings, with kinzo as dad, her man ran away from her.. ]

[worldend_dominator]

That was Father's family. Mine is nothing like his.

[Because for her, her "family" is first and foremost Maria.]

[blackwitch]

It's still your family too! Not like you can escape from that.

[worldend_dominator]

[Escape? She has to smile bitterly at that line. Who needs escape when they're already the last one left?]

[Come to think of it, the Beatrice she remembers had said something similar. And then...]

I think
I think Father has stopped regarding us as a family long ago.

[Really, it had become less about familial affection and blood ties than it was about Kinzou's money.]