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[ Hugo listens to her words with a thoughtful expression, because immediately… He thinks that her words are wise. Perhaps that’s to be expected of a goddess of death, and perhaps she’s better acquainted with that loathing than most. No wonder she reminds him of Vivian, probably. They’re both unlucky in how people must view them.

…Because he’s the perfect example of what she means, isn’t he? He detests this new body of his. He hates looking at his ghastly bones, hates feeling that eternal heaviness of water in his chest. It’s why he’s a coward that wears his glamor so stubbornly. So, her words aren’t likely to leave his mind any time soon. But even thinking that she’s probably right that it would be best to just acknowledge what he is?

He won’t be able to stop rejecting it.

It’s a good thing this a conversation about Vivian. Not him. ]

Ah, you’ll make me blush with praise like that~.

[ He’s more light-hearted in his presentation than he feels, but the more he talks, the easier it is to push down. ]

Thank you, I mean. I’m just as fortunate to have her too. Well. Have had, maybe? I certainly don’t want her showing up here… [ he would, frankly, lose his shit, ] But I think the two of you would get along very well. I think she’d be enchanted to talk to a goddess, in fact.

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Maybe we'll meet in a more auspicious world.

[ She most certainly wouldn't wish for anyone she knows to be summoned in this world, not even Ishtar. Especially not Ishtar. Well, except maybe Gilgamesh. Not only he could use the humbling, but he would also be a huge help in getting something done against Patho-Gen. ]

That I can be summoned against my will now that I have a vessel is pretty novel, but I suspect this may be a more common occurrence than any of us realize. [She smiles.] If so, surely our paths and any others will cross in the future.

[ The only question being whether it'd be the current them or different them. Hopefully current, because other incarnations of her would possibly put his sister in a cage to protect her, based on his description.

... They may also put him in a cage, but that's another matter. ]

Have you thought about making a painting or statue representing her? She matters a lot to you, and perhaps this could help you to materialize those feelings in an artistic way.

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Mm… That would be nice. In fact, if you happen to be looking over ours, I’m sure an assist for the Hollows would be appreciated~!

[ He’s joking, though. Ironic as it may be when he’s literally standing in front of a goddess and happily chatting away like she’s a normal girl, he’d still call himself an atheist… When it comes to his world, at least. It’s not even the normal lamentations of how gods could let cruel things happen in the world (to him), but rather, it feels more solidly practical.

Surely, if they existed, they would have at least made themselves known, right? His world stands on the razor’s edge of total extinction. Even callous gods would have to care about that.

When she asks about a representation of Vivian, he stops walking. ]

Ah, but I’m a step ahead of you there… I have drawn her, actually. It’s my most painstaking work, and thus, it’s in a private gallery.

[ He turns to walk back towards the way they’d entered. ]

By which I mean it’s in my home. I live on the fourth floor here, since why not? [ No reason to pay rent twice… ] We can make a little detour to see it, if you’d like.