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[color=dc143c]"You know's well as I do that I wouldn't go anywhere without my sidekick."[/color] He joked, shooting her a shit-eating grin. Try as he might to deflect, though, she was right. Graves had every opportunity to leave the group and go off to do the work on his own. He'd been given plenty of excuses to slip out, too, with how often Kazuki got on his nerves. But here he was, drudging through sewer water with these idiots instead. [color=dc143c]"Meant what I said when this all started, though. We stick together. All of us."[/color]

It wasn't an outright lie when he talked about wanting to fight to protect people; he [i]cared[/i], just not nearly in the same way the others did. In the way Alja did. The only people he really felt obligated to watch over were this group of weirdos he'd gotten himself wrapped in. Other, better men could care about the fate of cities and countries. Graves was here for them.

He looked to Alja, and the way she was gripping at chain in her hands. Graves wasn't exactly the most in-tune with other people's emotions- not like Seele was- but it was obvious Alja's guilt was eating away at her. It was a virus that'd gone around, it seemed, and all the chest-beating in the world couldn't hide it. [color=dc143c]"Woe be unto the monster that gets in the iceberg's way."[/color]

[color=dc143c]"I think we oughtta talk to Benny boy 'bout when we're done here. Maybe we can't get everybody on board with raidin' the dungeon itself, but...there's gotta be [i]somethin'[/i] they're all willin' to do."[/color]
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