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Dedue enters the scene
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Gilbert
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Ah, hello. Dedue, yes?
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Dedue
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Finished praying?
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Gilbert
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I am, yes.
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Gilbert
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You have grown much since I saw you last. You are a man now.
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Dedue
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You barely know me.
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Gilbert
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True. I suppose we did only meet a handful of times.
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Dedue
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As haggard as you look now, you were even worse when I last saw you in the capital.
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Gilbert
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Haggard, eh? True enough.
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Dedue
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Still weighed down by the same regret, I see.
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Gilbert
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I was unable to protect the king. That is the ultimate failure. One I must atone for.
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Dedue
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If you have the spare time to beg forgiveness, then pick up a lance and train.
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Gilbert
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That would do nothing to atone for the dead.
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Dedue
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Your prayers are mere self-indulgence.
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Gilbert
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You do not understand.
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Dedue
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No, I do not.
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Dedue
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Faerghus needed you. His Highness needed you.
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Gilbert
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There was no other choice but for me to leave.
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Gilbert
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What would you have done if you were in my place? If His Highness had died due to your failures?
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Dedue
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If he commanded me to live, then I would live. Otherwise, I would die with him.
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Dedue
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I have nothing left to lose other than His Highness.
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Dedue
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Home, family—all but that man, I have already lost.
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Dedue
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You were a knight in service to the king for decades.
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Dedue
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Not only did you excel in bravery, wisdom, and tactics, but in matters of character you were an ideal knight. Utterly above reproach.
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Dedue
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That is what His Highness has always said.
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Dedue
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I have only come this far by modeling my conduct after his stories of you.
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Dedue
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But now...
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Gilbert
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Forget those words spoken by His Highness. I am no different a man than I was before...
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Gilbert
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Beaten down by sin. Alone and weak. I am lost and irredeemable.