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nq240401_msg0001 |
Sigh... |
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nq240401_msg0002 |
Excuse me, but are you the person that's
been making a painting around here? |
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nq240401_msg0003 |
SIIIGH. |
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nq240401_msg0004 |
A-are you OK? |
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nq240401_msg0005 |
Will you listen to my tale of woe? |
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nq240401_msg0006 |
I was once a soldier who attended
Consul K, so that I might capture his
likeness within a portrait. |
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nq240401_msg0007 |
Are portraits different
from normal paintings? |
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nq240401_msg0008 |
Portraits are a type of painting! |
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nq240401_msg0009 |
I painted K as I was ordered.
It was my sacred duty! |
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nq240401_msg0010 |
And then one day I heard that K had fallen
to some ruffians called "Ouroboros"...
My life's purpose, vanished like smoke... |
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nq240401_msg0011 |
Life's purpose? Spare me... |
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nq240401_msg0012 |
However! My passion undimmed,
I returned to the Castle, where
there could yet be a Consul. |
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nq240401_msg0013 |
Yet every day my talent is mocked.
"How can an image fell an enemy
soldier?" they jeer, vulgarly. |
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nq240401_msg0014 |
Not a soul remains in all Aionios
who appreciates my art! |
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nq240401_msg0015 |
I've not heard of any. |
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nq240401_msg0016 |
But enough of my sorrowful
tale. Who are you? |
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nq240401_msg0017 |
We're- |
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nq240401_msg0018 |
Wait! No! You're the Ouroboros! |
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nq240401_msg0019 |
Don't worry, we mean you no harm. |
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nq240401_msg0020 |
We were only wondering if you
wouldn't mind showing us your
painting...this portrait, I mean. |
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nq240401_msg0021 |
N-no, I don't mind... |
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nq240401_msg0022 |
I see. The figure of a person, rendered
in colored dyes using a soft brush on a
material called canvas... |
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nq240401_msg0023 |
That's a portrait, is it? |
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nq240401_msg0024 |
That's right. And portrait-painting
forms part of "culture". It's a concept
K educated me in. |
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nq240401_msg0025 |
But hoi polloi soldiers ascribe no value
to it, and so I have returned to the Castle
in slender hope of succor... |
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nq240401_msg0026 |
But if no one's buying,
you're in a tight spot, eh? |
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nq240401_msg0027 |
Exactly, yes. |
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nq240401_msg0028 |
Well, I don't think culture's gonna
do much good when you're risking
your neck out on the front lines. |
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nq240401_msg0029 |
Hmm, culture... |
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nq240401_msg0030 |
Wait, Eunie. You said Monica had been
talking to you about culture before? |
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nq240401_msg0031 |
Mm? Oh, yeah. And? |
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nq240401_msg0032 |
Can such a thing be true?! |
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nq240401_msg0101 |
Yeah, there's a Nopon in the City
who knows all about that kind of
stuff. Wellwell, I think. |
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nq240401_msg0201 |
I bet Wellwell would know all about that
kind of stuff. He's a Nopon from the City,
so it figures. |
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nq240401_msg0301 |
The City? I have never heard of such
a colony, but something about the name
certainly smacks of culture... |
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nq240401_msg0302 |
Very well, then! |
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nq240401_msg0303 |
Would you be so kind as to show
my little daubs in this City of yours? |
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nq240401_msg0304 |
I don't remember signing up for- |
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nq240401_msg0305 |
Surely such discerning folk shall be
able to value my art at its true worth! |
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nq240401_msg0306 |
And if not...if not then I shall simply... |
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nq240401_msg0307 |
OK, OK, save the waterworks. |
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nq240401_msg0308 |
Let's do it. Poor thing looks like
he's at the end of his tether. |
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nq240401_msg0309 |
Ugh, fine. |
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nq240401_msg0310 |
Oh, thank you, thank you! |
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nq240401_msg0311 |
I shall entrust you with
my precious portrait. |
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nq240401_msg0312 |
OK, let's get this valued
at Wellwell's shop. |
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nq240401_msg0313 |
This is the piece I have most faith in,
among all of my work! All my hopes go
with you! |
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