[WEEK 4, SATURDAY POST-TRIAL: Jacopo]

[spinatalltale]

[it's honestly not difficult to find Magilou near her hut after the trial, book in her lap and quill tucked in her mouth. when she sees Jacopo, she smiles]

Uho? Do you have something to say?

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[fragmento]

Laphicet's incentive.

[ he looks her straight in the eye. ]

He's trying to erase his own existence — and he just succeeded.

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[spinatalltale]

[that is--]

[spinatalltale]

[not what she expected]

. . . that isn't the incentive he told me about.

[fragmento]

He and I had the same incentive. That's why...we were paired, I think.

[ he crosses his arms. ]

He wanted to create a world where Velvet, as well as the rest of you, could find happiness. A world in which his being was never created. Your incentive is granted if you kill without confessing or being voted off.

[ his gaze lowers. ]

Keep what you can of him while you're able.

[spinatalltale]

[that. . . . . . .]

[. . .]

[quietly, with forced neutrality, as though her chest doesn't suddenly ache all the way to her core]

He told me he wished to make a world where Velvet could be happy. Where he was born as an actual child, with Arthur and Celica as his parents. Where Laphicet-- the first Laphicet, Velvet's brother-- was never sacrificed.

Where there was no daemonblight. No malevolence. And no need for Maotelus.

[fragmento]

He didn't exactly tell you about the loopholes to that wish of his, did he?

[ he smiles — it's pained. ]

That Laphicet...that human child — that's not going to be him, Magilou.

[spinatalltale]

[. . .]

I wasn't aware that's how deep his incentive would go.

[haaaa]

Erasing everything we've done. . . every battle we've fought, every story we created, every adventure we've gone on.

[. . .]

[why does it hurt]