dahut

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[HELP. Dahut just nodding solemnly... They don't have therapists in Arpechele until one gets airlifted in for Lucas but he agrees that Lucien needs help HIS BRAIN PROBLEMS. me typing powers like ig that too]

That's true! He and Monsieur Viktor are quite the match, and it seems like he's managed to make himself some friends, too.

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Yes, he has...

[ he sounds wistful for

some reason ]

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[WHAT IS HE SOUNDING WISTFUL FOR.]

...What are you thinking about...

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The two of us were very close.

[ he places a hand over his heart. ]

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Ah, I see, I see! You must miss him, then.

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Yes... but it will be quite awkward at the reunion, with Viktor-sama and all.

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Eh? [HM?] Will it...

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People are entangled in such fascinating ways...! And there's your child to think about, too!

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I worry for them... I do not think this is the right environment to raise a child.

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No, being surrounded by violence and murder doesn't do a child much good. [...] Have you raised a child before...

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[ oh. ]

Yes, actually. Well... I would not say I was the main caretaker, at least.

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[HELP he hadn't actually expected this answer and there's a flicker of curiosity in his expression.]

How'd you end up in a situation like that?

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Um... a family tradition, I guess?

They just sort of keep dumping their kids onto me.

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Um? [HELP.] Just... They just leave their children in your care? Over the generations?

[LIKE ABANDONING A BABY AT A HOSPITAL??? BUT IT'S AN INN RUN BY A DEMON????]

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Well, the child could leave and go back home at any time, but. You know!

[ HE DOESN'T KNOW ]

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[HE DOESN'T KNOW!!!!]

So it's just like babysitting that could end whenever the child wanted it to? Why?

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Hmmm.

To help them grow up.

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[comes back delirious after talk of fish and fistulas]

Oh? In what sort of ways?

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Oh, ah... it is a family of... I suppose one way to describe them is exorcists? Monster hunters?

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Ah! Right... If there are demons, there are probably all sorts of other things too, aren't there? In your world, that is.

[What a wild place to be. Damn. Imagine magic existing.]

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Basically... Their parents send their children off to me for training, and then eventually they are ready and we reach the end of our relationship. It's a tradition that's been going on for several generations now.

[ sometimes you send your demon slaying family to a demon ]

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This sounds like a very complex way of handling things, somehow?

[WHY. This demon family's wild, good for them.]

How many of them have you watched after?

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... I lost count...

But the last one I dealt with is a spitfire! He is a young adult now, and he hates me!

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Oh, no! That's so sad! Why does he hate you?

[A CONTENTIOUS FAMILY RELATIONSHIP...]