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So, he's mentally in a good place and great situation in Assiah, too.

[ This boy... ]

What, you think the human spawn of Satan was gonna have an easy life?

He's suicidal, you know. I'd be mindful of that since you have a Morinath contract on him. I'm sure he hasn't taken advantage of that because he has some objective in mind.

[ There's no "I suspect" in front of that last statement because she's sure of it. ]

He wants answers more than he wants to die. And he'll activate it when it's the right time, I set it up to take out more than just him, and he knows it.

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What's that supposed to mean?

[ Her hands are on his shoulders. She is pre-shake. The only thing that saved him was that cryptic statement. ]

You should ask him about it! [LEWIN NO]

[ Her hands grip his shoulders properly and she begins to shake him wildly. ]

What do you think I am? Stupid?! You put a contract on him that'll kill him if he talks! That's counterproductive!! I am not killing our son!!!

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[he's an anime character so he just lets himself be flailed comedically around

and then]

If he's our son he'll be smart enough to figure out how to talk about it without triggering it!

[ She continues to shake him for an additional moment because it's kind of impressive how flexible he is about this. She does, however, gradually slow down. ]

Maybe.

[ Shake. ]

You've got a low estimate of him if you think he can't handle it.

I know he's capable.

[ She does. He's particular enough with his words that she shouldn't need to worry about triggering anything, not as long as he has his will to live. ]

Tomorrow. I'll ask Shiemi-chan how he is first. Our conversation wasn't a light one and I'd like to give him a little time to recover before I go digging for answers.

You care about him a lot, don't you?

What gave it away?

[There's no answer to that, but he does tug on her hair. Bully.]

I think he's probably the kinda kid who needs that. Doesn't seem like he knows about too many people who care about him back home.

Think or know?

[ Not that she can't imagine that being the reality in Assiah, but then, Setsura can imagine a lot of things. ]

I haven't spent a lot of time studying the guy! But he's Satan's bastard, human or not, and I'd bet half the exorcists in the order would show up to watch if he were publicly executed. [that's more matter of fact than joking]

What a surprise.

[ It isn't and the words leave a bad taste in her mouth, the bitter sort that would make the average woman's lip curl and fists clench.

Setsura's do not.

They'd spoken about certain things the day they first met. She's more than a little familiar with the idea and relative concepts. ]

I don't suppose it would make a difference if he'd married the woman.

Yeah, those kids probably wouldn't have made it to their first birthday if it had been that kinda relationship.

It's a miracle they survived at all as it is, I'm pretty sure Fujimoto was supposed to exorcise them both instead of adopting them.

[ That's a name she's familiar with, one she wants to ask him about. Rin and Yukio are seemingly familiar with Lewin at his current age, so it only makes sense that Lewin would have been old enough to possess and process some information about the people and events surrounding her boys' birth.

She opens her mouth, a question on her lips, but pauses. Then, after little more than a rather off beat -- ]

Who was she?

[ Yes, "she".

Setsura has heard some things about Fujimoto, but as for Rin and Yukio's mother -- all she seems to recall about the woman in this moment is Rin saying she resembled her, and how, when he'd said it. That day... ]

Egin? [Lewin asks, and considers.]

I never met her, she was just a minor exorcist working at the Japan branch. I've got some of the textbooks she wrote, before they scrubbed her name off them and threw out the really interesting bits.

If you're asking for my opinion, I think she was a Tamer who got in way over her head.

Excuse me?

[ She knows he said what she thinks she just said. She trusts her hearing implicitly, but a Tamer who got in way over her head? That's... ]

Egin Yuri, a Tamer with an exemplary record working for the True Cross Japan branch teaching classes and writing textbooks until she disappears out of all the records in her mid-20s, about a year before the Blue Night.

According to the official report she was executed for heresy by Fujimoto at the same time as he exorcised the kids.

You ever end up in Assiah don't try and look up too much about her, you'll get guys from the Vatican knocking on your door.

[ So that's her name.

Setsura files the information Lewin has provided her with in her head. Yuri Egin, hm? Executed for heresy by Fujimoto... she'd expect the official report to say no less, but then, things aren't always as clean cut as the paperwork says. She'd known that well before she met Rin, Yukio, and Lewin.

Still, it leaves questions he might not have the answers to. Rin and Yukio, too. Nothing the boys have ever said has suggested Fujimoto told them much if anything about their mother and she doubts Yukio would be especially keen about the subject. ]

You mean our door.

Nope. You poke around in that kinda thing, you're on your own.

I'm not giving you a divorce.

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