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Yeah. There once was a time when I wanted to be like you.

Once, I was your Mermaid. Devoured and overwritten by your beliefs, I swam toward a towering mad Whale that wore your face.

Because if I didn't... I... didn't know if I could go on.

My years of aimless wandering. My loss of everyone that was ever precious to me. That I was the only one who survived. That, once I had one chance to get them back, I ended up killing them with my own hands.

All of that had to be your fault. That was the only way to make it bearable.

Before I saw that recruitment post... after I boarded the Pequod... even after I joined Limbus Company... I've never taken the helm of my own ship.

But... I think I've finally found my compass.

Does a mere deckhand dare speak of her own compass now?

Yeah. An incredibly annoying compass that keeps getting in my way. But... they're also a compass that, even as they waver, points to where I want to go…

So I want to go on an adventure with that compass. A real adventure. To explore and learn this world we live in.

But that bloodied past I've sailed in this voyage... is also a path that I charted.

I accept that now. And I'll carry that weight with me. ...All of it.

That's why I have to let you live. That is how I will chart my own path.

What...?