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Good afternoon, all.

If we have not yet become acquainted, then please, allow me to introduce myself. I am Sebastian Michaelis, another recently arrived Outsider, and most pertinent for why I make this address today, recently employed on LILITH’s base here in Neo-Tokyo. My official title is the kitchen manager for the cafeteria, but as needs must, I have taken on some additional responsibilities. I may not be in service to my lord here, but I still feel it important to best offer my skill as a butler.

First, on matters of food.

I am attempting to improve the menu on offer in the cafeteria, and I hope that anyone that has stopped by to try the improved offerings in recent weeks has enjoyed them. However, I would very much like to expand such offerings. If there is a particular dish that you find yourself missing, please, do let me know. I will endeavor to recreate it with your assistance, though I can make no guarantees. If you have a recipe I can follow, all the better.

Second, on matters of facility maintenance.

While our automated services are adequate, I do believe that the order and cleanliness of the base could be improved. Thus, the additional responsibilities I have taken on. If you find any part of the base in disrepair or would perhaps like your personal quarters cleaned regularly, please let me know. It would be my pleasure to do so, as a tidy home makes for happier people.

If you would like a full list of services I offer, I would be glad to provide it. I simply fear that this is already a rather long announcement.

Thank you very much for your attention. Do have a wonderful day.

- Sebastian Michaelis

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does he want to be a cat like what is his problem

what horrible creature

Don't suggest that to him, he'll probably get those headphones from LILITH as it is. [the -- the cat ear ones ]

Yes. That horrible creature. Often, we were given gifts for our participation in the war, and that was his. I had to babysit it, too. It drooled all over everything, and made a mess.

maybe i will just to see you frown...

why were you babysitting your bodyguard's pet you could just say no, silco. i know you have it in you

It's not like I don't frown enough.

As for why, well, I tried to keep our working relationship amenable. A copacetic working relationship can be key when trouble starts to brew.

[ Also: he did really think he could buy better treatment from sebastian by accommodating. Idiot. ]

its a very specific kind of frown thought that's the thing. its amusing

awww do you have a soft spot silco. didnt think you had it in you

What? Amusing? Please, now you're making things up.

Trust me, where Sebastian is concerned, there is no soft spot. [ does have one though but he already heard about that one. ] Only disgust for a service that wasn't worth the price.

Just in case you ever consider hiring him: don't. [ hiring...contracting... same thing. ]

no im serious. amusing to me. heh

that so. hm. what service did he fail at i wonder

Hm. I think you like to see me annoyed.

Let's just say that in the end, he was uninterested in doing the basics of what a bodyguard should do — keeping me alive. Why, I had to rely on intervention from someone else, can you believe it?

no, really? couldn't have guessed

did you just piss him off enough that he decided to leave you to the wolves? i can see it from his angle maybe

It isn't Sebastian making me frown right now.

Do I seem like the type of person that would piss my bodyguard off that much? We'd even just did something incredible. Then he escalated the price.

[ He did not escalate the price, Silco just didn't understand it. ]

good. makes me not frown knowing that

was that in your contract? the escalation. how much was he even asking?

Maybe I should find reason to ruin that.

Hm, I'm not at liberty to say. Confidentiality clause, and all of that. I hold to the deals I make, even if other people don't.

how so? do tell

what a honorable man you are. you have the chance to drag his name through the mud and yet here you are. standing on principle

Maybe I'll stop frowning. Become a ray of sunshine. [ 😒 ]

It's not just principle. You and I both know that reputations mean everything. If I were to go around talking about all of my dealings, I'd have a bad reputation. That sort of thing gets around.

[ He already HAS a bad reputation. ]

i would pay to see that in a heartbeat

silco

be real with me

your reputation is not stellar here

Hm.

[ one minute. two. three. ]

You know what's funny? It's a fair bit better than it was in Kenos.

[ This??? Is an improvement?? ]

The escalation was a part of our arrangement. Think about it this way, if I missed it, what would someone else miss? In the end, he was going to separate me from my daughter.

[Now that...stops him in his tracks.]

[It takes a moment for him to respond.]

why would he want something like that? your suffering?

[ Silco over here casting sebastian in the worst possible light without breaking his deal 😌 ]

In my experience, that's simply the way of the world — any world. Sebastian is no different than anyone else in that regard.

that doesn't make it right.

that's going too far even for a world like that.

Of course it doesn't. Just because it isn't right doesn't mean it doesn't happen. I gave up on looking for "right" a long time ago.

At this point, I just expect it. Getting too comfortable means... Something will go wrong. It doesn't take long. Sebastian was novel in terms of scale, but... Why would I expect anything different?

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