[ it's! fine!!! she seems like she regrets saying that, anyway ]
[ she's trembling a little, too ]
[ honestly she doesn't know for sure that claude wouldn't do that to her, if it was choice he had to make between her and something more important ]
I know. I know that! But the other--- Edualc..... aside from trying to kill me, he acted exactly like Claude. He said things Claude said to me. He even hugged me at the end... and it felt just like.... [ regular claude hugs, except she was terrified he was going to finish her off ]
And all of that was to teach me to believe in myself? I'm supposed to believe in myself after all that?!
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It was a test. We all had to face off against someone important to us... from here.
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...Nier told me he faced Kainé. Were you against Claude?
[it's his best guess, given who maya's close to.]
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... That's right.
[ her emotions are muted, forcibly ]
It was supposed to be a lesson, supposedly.
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...what exactly happened? If you can tell me.
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No, Taichi. Do you know what the lesson was? That I should believe in myself.
[ she clenches her fists -- there's anguish, despair, and a bit of... anger. incredibly. ]
Claude trying to kill me was supposed to teach me to ... feel better about myself.
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While I think it's important for you to believe in yourself, that's definitely not the way to do it. That's not how that lesson should've been taught.
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Yeah, it makes me feel really good about myself when another person I love tries to kill me.
[ her heart clenches ]
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Claude would never do that to you, at least. The real one. Have you talked to him about all of this?
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[ she's trembling a little, too ]
[ honestly she doesn't know for sure that claude wouldn't do that to her, if it was choice he had to make between her and something more important ]
I know. I know that! But the other--- Edualc..... aside from trying to kill me, he acted exactly like Claude. He said things Claude said to me. He even hugged me at the end... and it felt just like.... [ regular claude hugs, except she was terrified he was going to finish her off ]
And all of that was to teach me to believe in myself? I'm supposed to believe in myself after all that?!