[he's not meeting her gaze, looking far off as if thinking about something]
That's up to him, as the person who saved my life. He'll let me go once he thinks I've paid him back.
[he doesn't mention that it's been centuries since he was saved, and that hae-ryong has been using him since then. that to him, a fox's life is valuable currency, and apparently outweighs all the little tasks that rang's had to do for most of his life. and that rang only thinks of this as a contract because thinking of what it really is will just weigh him down with despair, a desperate attempt to gain some agency in what he has, which is nothing.]
[ he already told her it's been 600 years, after she kissed him the first time. the wheels in her head turn, and she doesn't like what she's processing or the conclusion she's forming. it makes her livid, the unevenness of this so-called contract.
if it's been 600 years and it's a human, how is this human still alive? what horrible magic is he doing for this? ]
If he dies, will you be set free?
[ to her credit, she says that quite neutrally despite how much she's decided she hates this human man that has basically had rang as an indentured servant for 600 years. ]
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[ it's very neutral. she neither dislikes nor likes ritsuka much. ]
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at least lambda doesn't dislike her, though he doesn't like the idea of her being under a contract in the first place.]
Hae-ryong's the same. He's seriously annoying, but there are worse humans out there to be bound to.
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she tilts her head to get a better look at him. ]
Hae-ryong is the one you can't disobey? What will fulfill your contract to him?
[ she thinks the ramifications of his contract are worse than hers because she doesn't have to obey ritsuka all the time. ]
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That's up to him, as the person who saved my life. He'll let me go once he thinks I've paid him back.
[he doesn't mention that it's been centuries since he was saved, and that hae-ryong has been using him since then. that to him, a fox's life is valuable currency, and apparently outweighs all the little tasks that rang's had to do for most of his life. and that rang only thinks of this as a contract because thinking of what it really is will just weigh him down with despair, a desperate attempt to gain some agency in what he has, which is nothing.]
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if it's been 600 years and it's a human, how is this human still alive? what horrible magic is he doing for this? ]
If he dies, will you be set free?
[ to her credit, she says that quite neutrally despite how much she's decided she hates this human man that has basically had rang as an indentured servant for 600 years. ]