Sander (Set)/Side Tale 2

===Field of View===
Characters involved: Bar Owner
Dialogue
Graywater. Bar.
Bar Owner: Sander, it's been a while.
Bar Owner: You rarely come back here ever since you became an Esper.
The bar owner put a cocktail down in front of Sander. But Sander seemed a bit surprised.
: I didn't order this "Red Flame"
Sander. Set. Shadow Decree Member, Former Union Commander.
Bar Owner: Oh yeah? Hahaha, never mind, this one's on me.
: Thank you.
Bar Owner: Did you come back this time to visit your mother's grave?
: I suppose so.
Bar Owner: Oh, how the time flies by. I remember the first time you came here. You were just a kid.
Bar Owner: Back then, just a bottle of ale and you were trashed.
: Yes, now I don't drink ale anymore.
Bar Owner: How are you lately? I remember you were working so hard when you first joined Esper Union, you didn't come back to visit the cemetery for two years.
Bar Owner: Still busy now?
: Still busy. But not in Esper Union.
Bar Owner: I thought you weren't the type to keep tutoring kids in the Union. What were those free Esper called?
Bar Owner: Oh, right. Wanderer, the Hunter's Guild. Taking your own responsibility and living your own life. That's more like you.
: No, I'm with Shadow Decree now.
Bar Owner: Well then... What?! Shadow Decree? The Shadow Decree that I heard about?!
: There should be only one Shadow Decree in this world.
: Is there a problem?
Bar Owner: Sure... I mean, that's pretty good too...
Bar Owner: But, Sander, why?
: Are you asking why I chose to join the Shadow?
Bar Owner: You know, if it wasn't for the protection by the Wanderers, Graywater would have already become a testing ground of the Shadow.
The bar owner kept cleaning the cup nervously, avoiding Sander's face.
: Do you remember what I once told you, about the reason why I joined the Union?
Bar Owner: Oh, that was long ago, when Hunter's Guild didn't even exist. You said the Esper should live differently.
: Yes, exactly. I joined the Union at that point, and even became a Union Commander.
The bar owner seemed more confused.
Bar Owner: So, why the Shadow? Wasn't the Union your best choice?
: ... No, the Union is not necessarily the only choice for Esper.
: Especially for me, it's not the best choice anymore.
Bar Owner: I don't understand...
: Becoming an Esper means I have a much wider field of view then most ordinary people.
: So an Esper should put himself in a higher position, to fully see what is happening and what is going to happen in this world.
: You could say... they need to see the "greater good".
Bar Owner: Isn't that what the Union are doing?
: You are not getting it.
: It's not the Union that should be in a higher position, it's me.
Bar Owner: Now that sounds more like you. I think I am starting to understand.
: As you get older, you will have to change.
Bar Owner: Just like how you used to like ale when you were young, but later on you preferred Red Flame.
Sander stared at the untouched Red Flame, and waves at the bar owner.
: I'll have A Night in Grandis please.
Bar Owner: This "Red Flame" was on me, are you not drinking it?
: ...
: I don't drink Red Flame anymore.