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here. I can’t write. In fact, I can’t really read either. I don’t even
what a computer is, let alone work it. But thankfully, there’s someone here
who can do it for me. While I narrate, she writes it all down for me. Any
mistakes are obviously <i>not</i> my fault, but hers. So live with it,
people.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=
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“Don’t worry! I… I have beta-readers! Sorta!”)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=
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There’s no way this person owns Ragnarok Online. I mean, <i>look at her!</i>
Does she <i>look</i> like she’s capable of developing a game?! This is a
person who fails to finish a single group picture with more than three people
in it! <i>A game</i>?! Don’t make me laugh. She owns me though. Or, should I
put it this way – I own her. Though in reality I’m just a voice in her
head, in the world of RO, and <i>my</i> world (which I dub Kale’s Universe),
she’s just a voice in <i>my</i> head. So er. Hika doesn’t own Ragnarok
Online. But I own her. And myself.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=
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don’t have to say that every chapter. Pretend it exists throughout,
okay?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=
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you believe in Fate?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=
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don’t. I prefer not to. Because then when things go wrong I can say “I was
unlucky” (or lucky, depending on how you see it), instead of “It was
supposed to happen”. I don’t like the feeling of being part of some Great
Plan, where things happened to me for a reason. A lot of people like to believe
in Fate. And God. And the Great Plan. I guess it’s because they realise if
that’s the case, when things go wrong they have something to blame. And
something to look forward to. Because, obviously, God doesn’t torture a Good
person for no reason, so there’s obviously something <i>else</i> waiting at
the end. The hardships and tortures are mere obstacles to test one’s Faith
and err… Go talk to Kotone. She forgets, but at least she can always pull out
her bible – ripped pages and all – and come up with something.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=
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Fate. Screw God. Screw the Great Plan. Because if everything that happened to
me ever since I was born happened because there was a reason, God must truly be
screwing with me. In fact, I can probably jump up with the conclusion that he
doesn’t like me, and decided to make my life hell ever since the day I was
born. The type of hell that’s sorta lukewarm. Which is a different torture
altogether, because if it’s boiling you can scream “AGH HOT GOING TO
DIE”, but when it’s lukewarm you scream and people go “AW PFT IT’S ONLY
LUKEWARM STOP WHINING”.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=
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all understand, right?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=
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the pain of a normal person! The pain of lukewarm hell! And small things that
don’t matter!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=
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the time for me to angst!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=
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Corner!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=
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right. Pfft.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=
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look. Let’s go through a rewind. I am an unlucky person, in an average sense.
I have misfortunes that are so small no one ever bothers about them, because
it’s not a catastrophic world disaster, nor a terrible tragedy. But that
being that, I’m rather lucky to be alive. Sure, lots of Bad Things have
happened, but so long as I have enough food to eat and am alive, heck, why not?
Unlucky things put to one side, I’m rather happy with my life.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=
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what was I supposed to say before I went off on that tangent again?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=
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Right. Fate.</span></p>
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Well, I’m not going to start on anything too philosophical, because
Philosophy is for idiots with too much time on their hands and enough food to
eat. This Fate I’m going to talk about is not all that deep stuff. It’s…
well, that casual stuff. You know, when you meet a girl and fall in love with
her at first sight and then just keep meeting her and meeting her and meeting
her and the circumstances are almost as if you were <i>Fated</i> to keep
meeting? Yes. I mean that type of Casual Fate. Because it’s not so often that
you get into coincidences like this.</span></p>
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