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capeandcowl2009-11-06 09:53 am
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We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.
[VOICE POST. Forward-dated to 2:30 as I have to be at work then. I will tag replies until I leave, and resume when I return (as long as it remains ICly feasible for him to have replied).]
[PUBLIC]
Effective at 4PM today, I will be turning myself in for the murder of the being known as Starscream. I... I must place my trust in the system I have worked to rebuild, and allow it to serve its purpose.
[Something faintly distant and detached creeps into his tone.]
...No man can be above the law, however devoted he may otherwise be to the duty of upholding it.
Rua, Ruka--you are to take care of each other until such time as Lupin returns to the home, do you understand? There are leftovers from last night's dinner, and plenty of simple food to be made when that is run out. If you--
[A pause. Keep your composure, Edgeworth. Perfection--even in the face of ruin. You remember the lessons, don't you? Of course you do. It's what you wanted, then. When you believed yourself guilty, as you do now.]
--If you need assistance until then, you are to contact Blue or Truth.
I'm... I am truly sorry.
I have never thanked you appropriately for the freedom you gave me in our world.
I do not deserve forgiveness, but nevertheless, I find myself wanting it.
Please understand.
[PUBLIC]
Effective at 4PM today, I will be turning myself in for the murder of the being known as Starscream. I... I must place my trust in the system I have worked to rebuild, and allow it to serve its purpose.
[Something faintly distant and detached creeps into his tone.]
...No man can be above the law, however devoted he may otherwise be to the duty of upholding it.
Rua, Ruka--you are to take care of each other until such time as Lupin returns to the home, do you understand? There are leftovers from last night's dinner, and plenty of simple food to be made when that is run out. If you--
[A pause. Keep your composure, Edgeworth. Perfection--even in the face of ruin. You remember the lessons, don't you? Of course you do. It's what you wanted, then. When you believed yourself guilty, as you do now.]
--If you need assistance until then, you are to contact Blue or Truth.
I'm... I am truly sorry.
I have never thanked you appropriately for the freedom you gave me in our world.
I do not deserve forgiveness, but nevertheless, I find myself wanting it.
Please understand.
[voice]
Perhaps they were, yet you have made no efforts to hide that you dislike me. Yet you were still willing to stop him. Obviously, I was fully capable of taking care of myself, yet how were you supposed to know this? I trust that you wouldn't have let me plummet to my death, if it were to appear that I wouldn't have been able to take care of myself.
Being one who fights for what is right, a hero, is inherently selfish in a way. I don't do it just because it's the right thing to do. I don't know anyone who does it simply for that, as opposed to a guilt complex, or to uphold an ideal.