Fates Supports/Niles Mozu

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Niles: Mozu?

Mozu: Gah! Oh, it's just you. Phew! You scared the tar outta me.

Niles: What are you doing in this dump?

Mozu: Hey! Don't call my village a dump. It's not its fault it's all shabby and run down. I mean...yeah, it's seen better days, but...

Niles: You still haven't answered my question. Why would you come here alone?

Mozu: I came looking for something. In all the confusion of the Faceless attack, I left something important behind.

Niles: Oh yeah? Is this "something" valuable?

Mozu: It surely is. It was our sacred treasure. A round ball, about yea big. And not just any old ball, but one with the harvest god's power stored up inside. Thanks to that thing, we were blessed with a good harvest year in and year out.

Niles: Interesting...sort of. It must have been very important to them. And yet, now they're all dead. Oh well.

Mozu: ... Yeah. You're right.

Niles: ...

Mozu: Guess I'd best give up the search for today and head on back.

B Support

Niles: You're still at this?

Mozu: Can't find the dadblamed thing anywhere. Could you lend me a hand?

Niles: I have a better idea... Why don't you give up already?

Mozu: Huh?

Niles: There's nothing here but rubble anymore. I guarantee looters have made off with anything of worth by now. If that ball of yours had any market value, it's long gone.

Mozu: You're...probably right. *sigh* It's kinda sad. I... How come I was the only one left alive...?

Niles: Does it really make you that sad that everyone is dead?

Mozu: Of course it does! That's my family you're talking about.

Niles: ...

Mozu: Haven't you ever been upset when someone passed? Don't you know that knot in your gut when you lose someone?

Niles: ...That's neither here nor there. I prefer not to dwell on those things. Better to live for the pleasures of the now. I could give you a demonstration, if it would take your mind off things.

Mozu: Th-this is hardly the time!

Niles: If you want to wallow in pain and misery in the ruins of your home, suit yourself. But my offer still stands if you'd rather have some fun instead.

Mozu: You...you're horrible...

Niles: And you're boring, which is worse. It wouldn't take much for me to make you feel better. Believe me, I know lots of ways. But I can see you'd rather be miserable, so carry on without me.

(Niles leaves)

Mozu: Wh-what a self-centered jerk...

A Support

Niles: Still down in the mouth, I see.

Mozu: Just go away, Niles...

Niles: This wouldn't happen to be the orb you were searching for, would it?

Mozu: What the—?! That's it! Holy heck! Where'd you find it?!

Niles: Crossed paths with a certain bandit who had it on him.

Mozu: A bandit, huh? So you were right—it did get stolen. But how'd you convince him to give it back?

Niles: I was part of a gang of thieves once. I still have some connections I can tap. Lucky for you, it fell into the hands of a thief who owed me one. So I got it back for you without much fuss.

Mozu: Wow...this means so much to me.

Niles: Anything to make you less boring.

Mozu: Haha, I'm too happy to care why you did it. Thank you, Niles! Seeing this ball again takes me back to those festival days...

Niles: A festival? Now you've got my interest.

Mozu: Yep. We'd put up a great big pedestal in the village square and place the ball on top. Then we'd all get in a big circle and dance around it.

Niles: It sounds like quite a production.

Mozu: Those were the good days. Hey, you wanna give it a try?

Niles: Hm? Can you be more specific?

Mozu: Let's you and me bop around the village square, for old times' sake.

Niles: Oh, no. No no no no no.

Mozu: Hey, don't knock it before you try it! You and me are pals now. I'm sure the harvest god wants to see you dance too!

S Support

Mozu: I wanted to thank you again for the other day, Niles.

Niles: I told you, I don't need thanks.

Mozu: Then I'll just say your dancing was mighty fine for a first-timer.

Niles: You cut a fairly cute figure yourself.

Mozu: Whuh...you mean that?

Niles: It's what I was thinking about the whole time we were dancing.

Mozu: Y'know... The harvest god handles fertility stuff, too. When a gal and a fella dance around his ball at the festival...

Niles: Go on.

Mozu: I can't say it. It's too embarrassing.

Niles: Then let me guess: they're blessed with children?

Mozu: Whoa there! You're getting ahead of yourself, buster. B-besides, the way I was raised, children don't come until after the wedding.

Niles: Of course. How could I forget? Let me fix that by asking for your hand in marriage.

Mozu: What?! Talk about out of the blue!

Niles: It's not as sudden as you think. I came to see you today with that in mind.

Mozu: Huh?! You like me that much?

Niles: If I didn't, why would I have gone to such lengths to get this orb back?

Mozu: Wait a sec...you said before it was no big deal getting me my harvest ball. Niles, you sneaky so and so.

Niles: Let me know once you're past the obvious and up to speed.

Mozu: Haha, I'll marry you, you big grump. Someone needs to take the edge off you, after all.

Niles: We'll be a family, won't we? That'll be a new experience for me. But I'm excited to explore the idea with you. Now, when you feel ready to cry, you can come do it on my shoulder.

Mozu: Thanks, Niles. You've got a kind heart behind that smug grin after all.