Mike

'Price on tag, truth to you~'

*Mike - Known as the 'Business Matchmaker.'*

*Possesses a slippery tongue and a large network.*

*A Traveling Merchant who possess a slippery tongue*

## Intro

Mike was born to a rich family in Crossport. As the eldest son of the patriarch, he inherited the family hope for rejuvenation. Mike followed his father running business when he was little, known for his quick thinking and wide connections. But his younger brother Martin was imprisoned by father for being a Gyee, who was then reduced into a villain by grudges.

At Mike's twentieth birthday, Martin burnt down the house with Shadow Spell. Mike was rescued by Servant Carter and Bodyguard Peter at the cost of badly burnt right arm. After recovery, Mike sold all assets, left Crossport and became a traveling merchant.

By virtue of extraordinary eloquence, wide connections and his brilliant brain, Mike has become quite a success. He has traveled to many places of the world. Beside traveling and making money, he has one more important purpose: find his brother Martin.

### Forming a Pact

**Mike's rarity:** SSR

**Max Epiphany without Illumination:** Level 6

The player can form a pact with Mike by the following methods:

* Starter Summon
	+ Use 28 Heart Stones to add this Gyee to the Starter Summon pool.
* Limited Summon
	+ You can form a pact with Mike by summoning him on his limited-time banner.

## Skills

### Basic

* [Mind - Refreshing]: Gains immunity to control, lasting 2 rounds. Each attack received removes 1 stack.

**Skill Level**
1. 41%
2. 46%
3. 51%
4. 56%
	+ The owned[Resource - Flux] deals 20% bonus damage after casting [Capital Backflow] The owned [Resource - Gold] has a 10% bonus Silence chance after casting [Capital Backflow] The owned [Resource - Spice] has a 34% chance to apply 1 bonus stack of [Mind - Refreshing] after casting [Capital Backflow].

### Advanced

* [Resource] will last or automatically remove till the recast of [Lovely Glitter] or [Worldly Possession].

**Skill Level**
1. 47%
2. 53%
3. 59%
4. 65%
	+ The chance of [Lovely Glitter] randomly granting 1 bonus [Resource] is increased by 15%.
* **Cheap Flyers**
	+ Mana cost for [Lovely Glitter] is reduced by 15%.

### Ultimate

* [Gone Gold]: increases self damage taken by 15%, lasting 2 rounds.
* [Mind - Refreshing]: Gains immunity to control, lasting 2 rounds. Each attack received removes 1 stack.

**Skill Level**
1. 252%
2. 290%
3. 328%
4. 367%
	+ The owned [Resource - Flux] deals 47% bonus damage after casting [Worldly Possession];
* **Emergency Fund**
	+ [Gone Gold]'s debuff is minimized to 5%.
		- [Gone Gold]: While the effect is active, increases the character's damage taken by 15%. Lasts 2 rounds.
* **Triple Flowers**
	+ When there are 3 [Resources], recovers HP equal to 34% of damage dealt by [Worldly Possession].

### Mastery

* [Mind - Refreshing]: immune to control effects for 2 rounds. Removes 1 stack when attacked.

## Imprint

### Basic Engraving

* Wisdom Engraving (M.ATK +0.48% per Engraving level)
	+ Each engraving level requires I.N. Flux - Metal x120 and Gold x25,000

### Imprint Skill

The following Imprint Skill can be equipped on other Gyees and Avatars once unlocked.

* [Treasure Bowl], lasts 22 rounds, cannot be dispelled, will be removed upon defeat, and cannot be stacked.
	+ After casting Defense, has a 35% chance of getting [Silence is Golden], 25% chance of getting [Clothes Make the Man], 40% chance of getting [Vast Wealth]
	+ After getting an effect through casting Defense, [Treasure Bowl] will enter a 3 rounds CD.
* [Silence is Golden], lasts until the end of the battle, cannot be dispelled, will be removed upon defeat, and cannot be stacked.
	+ When attacked by a single target attack, the attacker will get [Silence], after that, removes self's [Silence is Golden].
* [Clothes Make the Man], lasts 2 rounds, cannot be dispelled, will be removed upon defeat, and cannot be stacked.
	+ After getting the effect, purifies self's all kinds of controls
	+ While the effect is active, immune to all kinds of  controls.
* [Vast Wealth], lasts 4 rounds, cannot be dispelled, will be removed upon defeat, and can stack up to 2 times.
	+ Increases self's DMG Dealt by 15%.
* [Silence], lasts 2 rounds, can be purified, will be removed upon defeat, and cannot be stacked.
* [Speechless]: [Special] effect. While the effect is active, seals all the active skills except normal attack. Lasts 2 rounds. Can be purified.

## Intimacy

### Date Choices

Dates will give either 500, 700, or 900 intimacy points depending on the choice selected.

* **Investments - Mike wants to invest in a factory that could help him make money. But what kind of factory is best for him?**
	+ **Cue:** What kind of factory do you think could make me rich?
		- Light weapons.
		*700 Intimacy*
		- Pharmaceutical.
		*500 Intimacy*
		- Machine tools.
		*900 Intimacy*

* **Sponsor - Mike has decided to become the exclusive sponsor of the next Rupor Show!**
	+ **Cue:** Got any idea?
		- Hunks Assembled.
		*500 Intimacy*
		- Animal Kingdom.
		*700 Intimacy*
		- Mike Team.
		*900 Intimacy*

* **Boar Meat - A deep question gnaws at Mike's soul: is Shadow boar meat edible?**
	+ **Cue:** You dealt with the Shadow a lot, so tell me, is the meat edible?
		- It's edible.
		*700 Intimacy*
		- It's not edible.
		*500 Intimacy*
		- Hire someone to cleanse it first.
		*900 Intimacy*

### Intimacy Blocks

To reach Intimacy levels 7 and 11, Mike needs mementos (found in Darkflux Raid), reiki (found in Extreme Fight or Arcana Tracker), and the following block item:

* **Intimacy Level 7**
	+ S-Academy Uniform
		- Back to studenthood.
		Used to break through Mike's Intimacy Block. Obtained in Darkflux Raid.
* **Intimacy Level 11**
	+ That Bag of Coins
		- A bag of gold coins in a shabby leather bag. They seem to be something significant to Mike.
		Used to break through Mike's Intimacy Block. Obtained in Darkflux Raid.

### Basic Drink Preferences

 25% bonus

 No bonus

 50% bonus

 25% bonus

*Note: All blended drinks have a base preference bonus of 25% that can be modified by the drink's attributes.*

### Gift Preferences

**50% bonus**

**25% bonus**

**No bonus**

### Views

Unlock views by leveling the intimacy of other gyees.

* **Rand**: I can still remember when he was young, he behaved like an obedient son before his father. But he would consider himself a freeman in the bars.
*Rand's Intimacy reaches Lv.2 to unlock*
* **Yang**: The more gifts Mike is carrying, the less sincerity he's holding. If he comes empty-handed, it means he wants your money.
*Yang's Intimacy reaches Lv.4 to unlock*
* **Peter**: What kind of person is Mike? I've heard a lot of comments. But I don't have an answer. Because that means nothing to me. It won't change anything.
*Peter's Intimacy reaches Lv.6 to unlock*
* **Martin**: Heh, for the sake of me? Eight years ago, he did everything for the sake of that position. And today, all he wants is the recognition of the deceased. If you can persuade this young master, tell him to save the hypocrisy.
*Martin's Intimacy reaches Lv.8 to unlock*
* **Elysiann Merchant**: The best matchmaker of the industry, no, consultant.
* **Innominate White Cape Soldier**: Boss Mike is a Gyee, which is publicly known.
* **Entertainment Business Owner**: Mike is the most welcome customer here and our dearest God.

## Scripts

### Consolation Letter

Tell you what, whenever I earn the money and feel it's time to relax and enjoy, there will be an attack of... a sense of emptiness. I feel empty. Nothing can interest me.

I could have played the blocks of Gold Bricks. But it's tiresome. I can't do it all by myself. So I think about spending some, hence a bunch of delicacies and cellars of wines. Money is still there, but gone is my slim figure.!

Aww, I really am upset. Spending money is much more tiresome than making money! So I guess I have to turn to you. Just come over and help me solve the problem, will you?

### Bath Drama

* It feels so gooood! It would be perfect if I can enjoy Choji's home-cooked meal afterwards!
* By the way, can you send some hunks over to bathe with me? Hee hee...
* I know quite a few nice hot springs places. I can take you next time.

### Fave Hottie Slogan

Someone voted for the Elysiann Merchant Guild leader just so they could buy a building in the expensive part of town (a bottle of fruit juice from the supermarket downstairs). Who is this legendarily generous leader? It's me...

### Intimacy Breakthrough

**This section contains spoilers for Intimacy Breakthrough scenes.**

**-Intimacy Level 4**

**Mike**: Whoa, so many gifts!
**Mike**: I'm so happy!

**-Intimacy Level 5**

**Mike**: I'll take everything here!
**Mike**: I'll never mistreat you!
**Mike**: Haha!

**-Intimacy Level 6**

**Mike**: You're so good to me...
**Mike**: It's only right for me to reciprocate!
**Mike**: From Elysiann to Crossport, Eversun to Westhold, just mention my name...
**Mike**: Every shop will give you a discount!

**-Intimacy Level 7**

**Player**: Isn't that Mike speaking to Carter?
**Mike**: Sigh, how come I'm almost thirty already?
**Mike**: How come time flies by so fast?
**Carter**: ...
**Mike**: Oh yeah, you're forty-something!
**Mike**: I may be getting old, but my heart's still young!
**Mike**: Let's sponsor another Rupor Show!
**Mike**: Make the theme, 'Effervescent Glows of Youth'!
*Carter shakes his head and hands Mike the ledger in silence.*
**Mike**: Uh, don't you worry about money!
**Mike**: You'll make a tidy profit, too, if the show does well!
**Mike**: I'm going on stage again this time!
**Mike**: How about both of us?
*Carter's head shakes like rattle.*
**Mike**: Hey, find an outfit for me, will you?
**Mike**: Something in bright color. Thanks!
**Carter**: ...
*Youthful Energy'... Bright color...*
*School uniform isn't a bad idea.*
*Get Mike a bottle. He might like it.*
*Scene transition*
**Mike**: Wow, is this for me?
**Player**: What do you think? Like it?
**Mike**: This is cool!
**Mike**: It's even more perfect with this 'Bright Ripple' dye of mine!
**Mike**: How about this one?
**Mike**: Gold like a sandy beach under the sun!
**Mike**: Nope!
**Mike**: It's so shiny, it's gold coins under the sun!
**Player**: There is no cure for greedy merchants...
**Mike**: Heh heh...
**Mike**: With writings too!
**Mike**: Oh no, my true colors are showing!'?
**Mike**: Are you hinting I'm a pervert?
**Mike**: I suspect the dye peddler cheated me.
**Player**: But you have no proof.
**Player**: Don't worry about the text. It's not going on your outfit anyway.
**Player**: I think this outfit and the dye should land you a high finish!
**Mike**: That goes without saying!
**Mike**: But it's still not enough!
**Player**: Not yellow enough?
**Mike**: No, not bright enough. It lacks the youthful exuberance!
**Mike**: I'm pushing thirty. I want to relive the craziness of my younger days!
**Player**: Were you crazy when you were young?
**Player**: Rand said you wouldn't dare backtalk your father.
**Mike**: Well, what I mean is reliving the crazy times I missed out on in my youth!
**Mike**: One bottle is not enough!
**Mike**: I'm prepared to purchase dyes of all colors.
**Player**: All? You going for the peacock look?
**Mike**: Kind of, but that's probably going to hurt the eyes.
**Player**: Try it, maybe it will work wonders.
**Mike**: Forget it, I can't do this, unless I want to make headlines again.
**Player**: What are you afraid of? This is what you'd call youthful craziness!
**Mike**: Actually, I just wanted to try different colors to see what fit...
*Mike scans the surrounding cautiously.*
**Mike**: (low voice) You know, the peacock style you mentioned didn't sound bad...
**Mike**: (low voice) Let's try it and I'll send you a picture!
**Mike**: (low voice) No no, don't send it out. Just don't!
**Player**: Okay, okay, no problem!
**Player**: Can't wait!
**Mike**: Okay, promise you'll come see me perform at the next Rupor Show too!
**Mike**: Then we'll have a feast after that!
**Player**: Ok!

**-Intimacy Level 8**

**Mike**: Yummy chicken again?
**Mike**: Fried, roasted, boiled, baked... All good to me!
**Mike**: As long as it's chicken!
**Mike**: Come chow down with me!

**-Intimacy Level 9**

**Mike**: Do you know who's the special guest for The Rupor Show this time?
**Mike**: The superstar coach from Elysiann, Tatum!
**Mike**: That face, those pecs, those biceps, those legs...
**Mike**: I'm so excited just thinking about it!
**Mike**: Rupor gave me two tickets, so I gotta invite my best bud along!
**Mike**: That's you!
**Mike**: Come on, let's go!

**-Intimacy Level 10**

**Mike**: You look exhausted. It must be hard adventuring outside.
**Mike**: Gotta face monsters every day...
**Mike**: On top of daily chores.
**Mike**: I feel for you.
**Mike**: Come sit on my 'Lucky Gashapon'.
**Mike**: Kinesiologically designed, soft and comfy, even with a massager.
**Mike**: Yes, press the button.
**Mike**: Relaxing, isn't it?
**Mike**: You understand why I never wanted to get off now?

**-Intimacy Level 11**

**Player**: Is that Mike and his team? All four of them, it looks like...
**Player**: Are they here for vacation? Something doesn't feel right.
**Mike**: Haven't you found the bag yet?
*Choji, Peter and Carter shake head collectively.*
**Mike**: When was the last time the trunk was open?
**Peter**: Just now, when we got the luggage out.
**Peter**: I searched nearby and didn't find it.
**Carter**: ...
**Mike**: So you're saying it's in Eversun, Carter?
**Peter**: The trunk was last opened in Eversun.
**Mike**: Eversun should be where it is right now!
**Mike**: Will you search in Eversun for me? I'm going to check where I dropped off the luggage.
**Peter**: Okay.
**Peter**: Let's split up and look along the direction we came in, Carter.
**Carter**: ... (nods)
**Choji**: Why so serious? You only lost a little bit of money, right?
**Peter**: Don't ask questions you shouldn't ask.
**Choji**: Fine, I won't. But how am I gonna find it if I don't ask?
**Peter**: Just follow Carter.
*Choji, Peter and Carter leave.*
**Player**: I get the sense that bag of gold is very important.
**Player**: Probably should see Mike and maybe help out.
**Player**: Hey, Mike the Boss!
**Mike**: Are you here on vacation too?
**Mike**: I'm busy right now, mind catching up later?
**Player**: Heard you lost a bag of gold. Need a hand finding it?
**Mike**: ...
**Mike**: Sure, thank you very much!
**Mike**: The gold is in a sheepskin bag that's pretty beat-up.
**Mike**: It should be on the streets in Eversun!
*Scene transition*
**Mike**: Yes, this is the bag of gold! Thanks!
**Player**: You acted a lot different when you lost the bag.
**Player**: What's the bag of gold to you?
**Mike**: Wait, what do you mean it was unlike me? How?
**Player**: Are you changing the subject?
**Mike**: I can tell you if you want to know, though it's long, boring and trivial.
**Mike**: Should I save it for when you get insomnia and need help sleeping?
**Player**: It's okay if you don't want to talk about it.
**Mike**: I think of you as a friend, so I didn't mean that as an excuse.
**Mike**: So, this bag...
**Mike**: Let's begin at when I was thirteen and Martin was eleven.
**Mike**: He wasn't Shadow then, and actually was quite a scrupulous, just lad.
**Player**: Martin? Scruples, justice and him don't mix!
**Player**: You're not making stories up to cover yourself, are you?
**Mike**: No, it's the truth!
**Mike**: I rushed over when I heard a bunch of street punks surrounded Martin.
**Mike**: I didn't like the situation and decided not to fight.
**Mike**: I told them, 'Please excuse my brother, he's still young and doesn't know what he's doing.'
**Mike**: I'll take him home and make sure he's grounded. As for the trouble he's caused you...'
**Mike**: I was about to hand them a bag of gold when Martin stopped me.
**Mike**: He said, 'They called mother names!'
**Player**: They called your mother names?
**Mike**: She eloped with her psychologist.
**Player**: What?
**Mike**: It's normal for you to not know. Hardly anyone mentions it now.
**Mike**: Unless they want to break up with me or even make an enemy of me.
**Mike**: People live for their own gains. They know what they should and should not do.
**Mike**: Oh, was I too serious?
**Mike**: Don't think I'm cheery all the time, I can be tough when necessary...
**Mike**: If I was always like this, I wouldn't have survived to this day!
**Mike**: Now where were we?
**Mike**: Oh, right, Martin stopped me.
**Mike**: But they weren't just any ole hooligans. They were from rich families too.
**Mike**: You know his brother. It's none other than Rand.
**Player**: Rand came from a rich family?
**Mike**: Yeah, and they were above us on the social ladder at that time.
**Mike**: Only for my father to ruin them.
**Mike**: But his family has returned to their former glory recently without my father around.
**Mike**: But back then, we couldn't afford to fight them, so I took the bag out.
**Mike**: I said, 'We're going to have problems if you don't drop it and start getting it out.'
**Mike**: Oh? What are you going to do about it?'
**Mike**: Not much. We're like a little bee to you. We could sting you but then we'd die.'
**Mike**: But a bee is more than a sting, it makes honey too... So it's either sting or honey.'
**Mike**: With that, I handed the bag over.
**Mike**: Martin, though, snatched it and tossed it toward the sewer ditch!
**Player**: He's gotten more backbones than you, for sure!
**Mike**: He probably would've been beaten to a pulp had I not shielded him with my body.
**Mike**: Father was already waiting when we limped home that night.
**Mike**: He said, 'The way you tried to diffuse the problem was smart.'
**Mike**: I felt satisfied when hearing that.
**Mike**: The praise more than made up for the two teeth that were knocked out and the loss in wages!
**Mike**: But then he said...
**Mike**: However, your thinking and approach were completely wrong!'
**Player**: Very strict, I see.
**Mike**: My father never smiled at me, but never chew me out, either, except that one time.
**Mike**: He said, 'You offering money to someone insulting your family is far worse than his action!'
**Mike**: I'll handle the matter myself. Take your brother to the doctor.'
**Mike**: I went to help Martin up but he brushed me off.
**Mike**: He said to father, 'This is not over yet! Let me go and protest to his old man!'
**Mike**: I saw father nod, with a smile, even.
**Mike**: He said, 'Sure, and bring Mike with you.'
**Player**: ...
**Mike**: You heard that right. He sent my 11-year-old brother off with me in tow.
**Mike**: He wanted my younger brother to represent our family, not me, the eldest son.
**Mike**: That was when I finally realized the title of patriarch is what I coveted all along.
**Mike**: But he wanted that to go to my brother.
**Mike**: From that day on, the relationship between Martin and I... got complicated.
**Mike**: After Rand's brother apologized, Martin retrieved the bag of money for me.
**Mike**: I was still pissed so I refuse to take it back... and had no money to buy toys for a month.
**Mike**: Then he defected to the Shadow and burned everything in his room.
**Mike**: Leaving only this bag of gold behind.
**Mike**: Sometimes I'd wonder what if I didn't covet the title...
**Mike**: What if one of us two wasn't a Gyee... What if we weren't born in Crossport...
**Mike**: I'm getting off tangent now. Anyway, I think this bag is pretty important to him.
**Mike**: Because without it...
**Mike**: I...
**Mike**: I could never hope to turn him back on the right path.
**Mike**: If losing the gold led to him not repenting and countless more to die by him...
**Mike**: I'd go down as one of the worst villains in history!
**Mike**: Right?
**Player**: I think you're deliberately avoiding the subject.
**Mike**: No, I really don't want to bring it up again. It feels like I'm fishing for sympathy.
**Player**: To be honest, I think it will get you more respect than sympathy.
**Player**: You've been through a lot, yet still maintained such a jolly attitude... Not many can do that.
**Mike**: You're embarrassing me with your flattery.
**Mike**: It's one thing to fish for sympathy, but respect? That's low.
**Player**: You worry about getting low, really?
**Mike**: Well, at least a little.
**Player**: Maybe you just don't want to recall and face the past.
**Mike**: Yeah, it only makes you sad thinking about it.
**Mike**: What, are you going to preach how I must not run away from my past but embrace it?
**Player**: I don't think it's up to me to do that, since you understand it quite well yourself.
**Mike**: Is that so...
**Mike**: It is better to face it, but if that was really that easy, why run?
**Mike**: To me, if someone always wanted to face something...
**Mike**: It's either he's aiming too high and doesn't realize all the difficulties involved...
**Mike**: Or he's overconfident and thinks he can overcome anything.
**Mike**: It could also be greed, since running never fulfilled anything.
**Player**: What bizarre logic is that?
**Player**: You're actually hinting you're a diligent, humble guy who's content with what he's got?
**Mike**: Good, you noticed!
**Mike**: You truly understand me!
**Player**: Can you put up the act some more?
**Mike**: Okay, okay, let's not talk about that on vacation.
**Mike**: Come on, get changed and let's go swimming.
**Player**: Ok.

**-Intimacy Level 12**

**Mike**: Thanks for sticking by all this time!
**Mike**: Huh?
**Mike**: I see you're not used to me being serious!
**Mike**: Remove the mask only for confidants.
**Mike**: Words from the heart are reserved only for the right people.
**Mike**: Bring joy to all.
**Mike**: Tell your hardship to someone who understands you.
**Mike**: No one buys sob stories anymore.
**Mike**: Maybe show some skin?
**Mike**: What do you make of this new merchandise?

**-Intimacy Level 13**

**Mike**: I followed your idea and created a new beverage.
**Mike**: 'Boba milk tea'!
**Mike**: It's selling through the roof!
**Mike**: Everyone from Crossport to Elysiann is drinking it!
**Mike**: The franchise stores are raking in money hand over fist!
**Mike**: Thanks so much for the idea.
**Mike**: Perhaps I should listen to other people more often.
**Mike**: I may seem well-connected, but I know I'm also one stubborn mule.
**Mike**: Don't take advice from others and do my own thing.
**Mike**: You inspired me out of my shell.
**Mike**: I'm now ready to go all out!
**Mike**: No, it's not what you think!
**Mike**: Anyway, we will do better.
**Mike**: Gyees will be better.
**Mike**: Because we have you.

### Dates

**This section contains spoilers for Date scenes.**

**Investments**

**-Intro**

**Mike**: I got something to ask you.
**Player**: Yes.
*Scene transition*
**Mike**: It's fad to start a 'startup' lately, be an entrepreneur.
**Mike**: Almost all of the bigshots I know are doing some sort of 'startup'.
**Mike**: I want money, yet I'm too lazy to build a company. So...
**Mike**: Should I invest in a manufacturing plant?
**Player**: You can try it.
**Mike**: I heard your world has a lot of factories, so you should be an expert!
**Mike**: What kind of factory do you think could make me rich?

**-Light weapons. - 700 Intimacy**

**Mike**: Light weapons?
**Mike**: Like firearms?
**Mike**: That's a pretty good idea.
**Mike**: Especially with active military recruitment and folks busy defending against the rampant Shadows...
**Mike**: Firearms are easy to use and powerful enough to matter... What a great idea!

**-Pharmaceutical. - 500 Intimacy**

**Mike**: That's a pretty good idea.
**Mike**: It will make money for sure, but I know nothing about medicine!
**Mike**: I wouldn't know how to manage a staff, either.
**Mike**: But I'll consider the option, and once I get people who both know medicien and management,
**Mike**: I'll invest in a pharmaceutical plant!

**-Machine tools. - 900 Intimacy**

**Mike**: Machine tools?
**Mike**: Sure, you got the business acumen for it.
**Mike**: Yeah, and with so many startups, they're going to need machine tools.
**Mike**: And the bigshots are all tight with me!
**Mike**: I'll make a lot of money selling them stuff!
**Mike**: Thanks, I'll treat you to a feast when I'm rich!

**Sponsor**

**-Intro**

**Mike**: Hey, I wanna take you somewhere.
**Player**: Yes.
*Scene transition*
**Player**: Isn't this the Rupor Show?
**Player**: You want to sign up to be a contestant?
**Mike**: No, I want to invest!
**Mike**: Or more accurately, exclusive sponsorship!
**Mike**: So I get to decide the theme for every show!
**Mike**: But I just can't think of any fun topic...
**Mike**: Got any idea?

**-Hunks Assembled. - 500 Intimacy**

**Mike**: Not bad!
**Mike**: But I'd get bored seeing hunks every day.
**Mike**: How about we change it up some?
**Mike**: Hunks in tuxedos?
**Mike**: Hunky cave men?
**Mike**: I should check with Peter and Choji to see if they got any idea!
**Mike**: Thanks!

**-Animal Kingdom. - 700 Intimacy**

**Mike**: Animal Kingdom?
**Mike**: Then I gotta get Yang, and tell him to bring that fellow from the shelter!
**Mike**: Between those two, first prize is theirs!
**Mike**: Okay, Animal Kingdom it is!
**Mike**: It's gonna be fun with a stage full of furry beasts!

**-Mike Team. - 900 Intimacy**

**Mike**: What, Mike... My team?
**Player**: Yeah, contestants must form teams and perform sketches as your guys!
**Mike**: Hey, that sounds fun!
**Mike**: I like it!
**Mike**: Plus product tie-ins for concession sales...
**Mike**: Like Mike's Capsule Recliner, Peter's Flaming Hammer, Choji's Skillet...
**Mike**: Thanks, I love the idea to death!

**Boar Meat**

**-Intro**

**Mike**: You're experienced, mediate something for me.
**Player**: Yes.
*Scene transition*
**Player**: What am I mediating?
**Mike**: It's like this, Peter killed a Shadow boar.
**Mike**: Then I coerced Choji into making a stew out of it!
**Player**: A Shadow boar stew?
**Mike**: Yeah. I never tasted Shadow before and wanted to try!
**Mike**: But all three of them objected.
**Mike**: It smelled so good, but no one wanted any!
**Mike**: You dealt with the Shadow a lot, so tell me, is the meat edible?

**-It's edible. - 700 Intimacy**

**Mike**: See, I thought so!
**Mike**: If Shadow boars are edible,
**Mike**: that means...
**Mike**: Shadow bears, Shadow wolves,
**Mike**: even Shadow spiders are edible!
**Player**: No no, shadow spiders are gross.
**Player**: Just forgot those, Mike!
**Mike**: Fine, then I shall taste this boar!
**Mike**: You want some?

**-It's not edible. - 500 Intimacy**

**Mike**: Oh...
**Mike**: Okay, since you know better...
**Mike**: I guess we won't eat it.

**-Hire someone to cleanse it first. - 900 Intimacy**

**Mike**: Get someone to cleanse it... What a good idea!
**Mike**: But what are we cleansing?
**Player**: What do you mean?
**Player**: The boar, of course!
**Mike**: Can't do. It won't be a Shadow boar anymore once you cleanse it!
**Mike**: There's nothing special about an ordinary boar!
**Mike**: It takes energy to eat, and I want to spend that on something significant!
**Player**: So what you're saying is...
**Mike**: Get someone to cleanse me, of course!
**Mike**: If I get tainted after eating the shadow boar,
**Mike**: he can cleanse me right there!
**Mike**: Then I can resume eating!
**Player**: You truly are a brave soul, sir...

### Trifle

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**Debt Is No Burden**

Mike invites you to Eversun and Elysiann for fun, adding that there will be a grand feast for you.
Go find him at Eversun.

**-Part 1**

*Scene - Eversun market, near the sea at night*
**Player**: Sorry to keep you waiting, Boss Mike!
**Mike**: Haha, I wasn't waiting long.
**Mike**: This sea breeze is really something!
**Mike**: You've come all this way. You must be tired. Why don't we get something to eat first?
**Player**: All right. What should we eat?
**Mike**: When it comes to Eversun, the most authentic and delicious food you can get is seafood!
**Mike**: And when it comes to seafood, the best is at the Lighthouse Restaurant!
**Mike**: Eversun Monarch Crab, Scarlet Lobster, Bluefin Tuna...
*Choice 1.1 - Sounds expensive!*
**Mike**: So what if it's expensive?
**Mike**: Who needs money when you can have delicious seafood instead!
**Mike**: It's worth it to spend a little bit more when it comes to seafood!
**Player**: You know, that makes a lot of sense.
*Choice 1.2 - Sounds delicious! - 5 Intimacy*
**Mike**: Relax, I'm the best at eating this kind of thing!
*Choice 1.3 - How about...I treat this time?*
**Mike**: I invited you. It wouldn't make sense for you to treat me...
**Mike**: How about this. This time, you don't have to spend a dime. Leave it all up to me!
**Mike**: Next time I'll pay a visit to you. Sound good?
**Player**: Ok.
*Choice 1.4 - Be honest, is there something you need from me? - 5 Intimacy*
**Mike**: Haha, there's no rush.
**Mike**: Actually, I just wanted you to help me inquire about something...
**Mike**: But we'll talk about it while we eat!
*Conversation continues after choices*
**Mike**: When we're finished eating, I'll have Carter bring the airship and take us to a small island in the south.
**Player**: Go to a small island in the middle of the night? What for?
**Mike**: Didn't I tell you I built a little house on an island?
**Mike**: It's a thousand square meters. Maybe two thousand. You won't think it's small when you see it.
**Player**: Two thousand...
**Mike**: It's an island. What can you do? You can't build it too big, and you can't make it too tall.
**Mike**: It's just ten stories.
**Player**: You wouldn't say that's big?!
**Mike**: It's just so-so. You can barely even play hide-and-seek in it!
**Mike**: And I've invited thirty arcanists and master surfers to come put on a show for us tomorrow.
**Mike**: What's the show called...
**Mike**: I think it's called...Tornado Spiral Surfing?
**Player**: What's that?!
**Mike**: The arcanists summon a tornado, and a bunch of guys surf in it!
**Mike**: And the arcanists also make this giant crystal screen so you can see a close-up of the water splashing on the surfers' muscles!
**Mike**: After we've watched the surfing, we'll go...
**Sound Not Afar**: Boss Mike, you must be loaded.
*A merchant with guards enters*
**Mike**: Haha, isn't this Mr. George?
**Mike**: You've come to Eversun so late. Are you here to talk business with someone?
**Mr. George**: Talk business?
**Mr. George**: Do you really not know, Boss? Or are you just pretending not to know?
**Mike**: Haha, I'm the kind of guy who values privacy.
**Mike**: I don't ask around about other people's affairs!
**Mike**: Mr. George, I'm supposed to be showing my friend here a good time. I must bid you farewell for today.
**Mike**: (Whisper) Let's get out of here...
*More merchants with mages and robots surround Mike and Player*
**Player**: (Whisper) Are these your enemies?
**Player**: (Whisper) Is Peter nearby?
**Mike**: (Whisper) He's allergic to seafood. I gave him some time off...
**Player**: (Whisper) I don't think I can handle them by myself...
**Mike**: (Whisper) No, no, no. Don't worry. Actually, they're just...
**Boss Charles**: Mr. President. Seeing as you've got the money to show your friend a good time, how about paying off your debt first?
**Madam Madeline**: You've kept us waiting so long. Don't you think it's time to hand it over?
**Young Master Luke**: You agreed to pay it off after a year, but you're three months overdue.
**Young Master Luke**: You haven't even paid back a single penny.
**Player**: (Whisper) So you owe these guys money?
**Player**: (Whisper) You owe them so much money. You'd better...
**Mike**: (Whisper) Haha, no, no. I've just had a minor problem with capital lately!
**Mike**: (Whisper) Don't worry, I'll get this sorted out.
**Mike**: Sirs, Boss Luke...I've got many contractual obligations, you know this.
**Mike**: I admit that our debt is overdue.
**Mike**: But it doesn't appear to say anywhere on the debt agreement that you can run me out on the street if I'm late on a payment.
**Mike**: I seem to remember that all it says is some interest will be added.
**Mike**: Everyone knows what kind of man I am!
**Mike**: I'm a kind and honest person. I like to make profits! I like it when everyone can eat meat. I like to share!
**Mike**: The only reason I haven't paid you back is because I want to see you earn that interest! I want to help you make a profit!
**Madam Madeline**: Wow. In the last few months since we've seen you, your debt-reneging skills have improved.
**Boss Charles**: Mr. President, we really don't want to inconvenience you. We just want you to pay back the money as soon as you can.
**Boss Charles**: Otherwise, it would be quite an embarrassing situation for everyone. Don't you think?
**Mr. George**: That's right. We're also kind and honest people. Why should we inconvenience you?
**Mr. George**: We've come here to collect the debt out of consideration for your reputation.
**Mr. George**: If the Honorable President of Elysiann himself didn't pay back a debt, how could anyone have faith in your chamber of commerce? How could anyone do business?
**Boss Charles**: That's right, Mr. President. Please understand...
**Young Master Luke**: Okay, Mike.
**Young Master Luke**: We're not going to beat around the bush.
**Young Master Luke**: Pay back the money and you can go.
**Young Master Luke**: Don't pay back the money, and you're going to stay here until someone comes and pays it back for you.
**Mike**: Boss Luke, I'm sure that's a sound strategy usually. It's just that...
**Mike**: It won't work here.
**Mike**: Because it's not that I don't want to pay back the money. To tell you the truth, I just don't have it.
**Mike**: I owe you a considerable amount. Even if my helpers were to sell my house, it wouldn't be enough to cover the debt.
**Mike**: However, if they were to decide to rescue me by force...do you really think you lot would be able to stop them?
**Mr. George**: You owe us money! I don't believe for a second you'd dare attack us!
**Mike**: Mr. George, how is it that you're still so anxious in your old age?
**Mike**: Presumably you've got something 'important' you want to do with the money. But don't you have another way of getting it?
**Mike**: Ay. Actually, I understand your situation. After all, you're helping your brother manage such old property...
**Mike**: I know you feel as strongly about those storefronts as you do about your own flesh and blood. So try to think of a way...
**Mr. George**: Cough!
**Mr. George**: Boss Mike, I seem to have forgotten my manners just now. I apologize!
**Madam Madeline**: What are you two playing at?!
**Mike**: Lady Madeline, don't tell me you...like wolves?
**Madam Madeline**: What...what are you talking about?!
**Mike**: Oh, of course I know that you and Yang don't have that kind of relationship.
**Mike**: But if certain matters were to come to light, it would be better for people to think you were having a 'tryst' rather than to know the truth of your conspiracy, right?
**Madam Madeline**: I have no idea what you're talking about!
**Mike**: Several days ago, Yang secretly looted a single secret cargo shipment so that your business partner Mr. Soros almost went bankrupt.
**Mike**: It looked as though you were coming to the rescue, but in fact you took the opportunity to seize lots of his...
**Madam Madeline**: Boss Mike. I'm begging you, don't say anymore.
**Mike**: As you wish, Director Madeline.
**Mike**: You're awfully quiet, Charles.
**Mike**: You seem to understand. How could I not know what you've been doing to our friends at the chamber of commerce?
**Boss Charles**: Mr. President...
**Mike**: I never said I was coming after you.
**Mike**: But if you were to do like you've done today and get together with outsiders to make me look bad...
**Mike**: Now, can I assume you're backing down?
**Boss Charles**: I'm sorry, Mr. President. I'll leave now...
**Mike**: Don't go. I'm just trying to lighten the mood a bit.
**Mike**: I never said I wasn't going to pay back the money, did I?
**Young Master Luke**: What are you thinking, Mike?
**Mike**: As a business consultant and arbitrator of debt, of course I...
**Young Master Luke**: Hmph, aren't you just a business matchmaker?
**Mike**: Boss Luke, the reason I didn't bring up your father just now is I'm guessing those are matters he doesn't want you to know about.
**Mike**: The adult world is a confusing place that you wouldn't understand. I don't want anything to negatively affect your relationship as father and son.
**Mike**: So let me finish what I was saying. Is that all right?
**Young Master Luke**: ...Go ahead.
**Mike**: My job is to help others build bridges, find business opportunities, and resolve disputes.
**Mike**: In everything, destroying is easier than creating. That's just a law of nature.
**Mike**: So wouldn't it be easier for me to tear down bridges, destroy business opportunities, and create disputes?
**Mike**: But my professional ethics won't let me do that unless I'm forced to.
**Mike**: I know. Everyone's got their difficulties.
**Mike**: But don't take your difficulties and make them mine.
**Mike**: As long as we can all be friends and do business together in the future, I am willing to help you. I would be very willing to help you with your difficulties!
**Mr. George**: Then...what's your point, Boss Mike?
**Boss Charles**: We will follow your lead, Mr. President.
**Mike**: Come on, you don't need to be so formal.
**Mike**: In the future, let's talk over our problems. I'm a very trusting guy.
**Mike**: For now, isn't the answer to everyone's problem just money?
**Mike**: Though I have no money now, I can get it!
**Mike**: As long as you give me three days.
**Mike**: Come find me here in three days and I will pay back all the money I owe you.
**Young Master Luke**: ...How is that even possible? How are you going to make that much?
**Mike**: Don't you worry, young man. When it comes to extra legal means of making money, I...
**Mike**: Uh... Wouldn't dream of it!
**Young Master Luke**: Mm. We'll be leaving now.
*Everyone leaves*
*Choices start*

**-Choice 2.1 - Can you make that much in three days? - 8 Intimacy**

**Mike**: Have you forgotten what my job is?
*Choice 2.1.1 - Something about consultation and arbitration?*
**Mike**: That's right. I'm a business consultant and debt arbitrator!
*Choice 2.1.2 - You're a 'business matchmaker.' - 5 Intimacy*
**Mike**: Haha, now you're going to make fun of me, too?
**Player**: Your official job title is too long. There's no way I'm going to remember it.
**Mike**: It's not so bad. Just say it several times and you'll get it: Business consultant and debt arbitrator!
**Mike**: If it helps you understand it a bit better, I am kind of like a 'business matchmaker' ... Plus mediator.

**-Choice 2.2 - Don't tell me you're not going to pay it back again?**

**Mike**: I have to pay it back. If I owe someone else money, even if it is overdue, I'm going to pay it back with interest.
**Mike**: Because once I start reneging on my debts, it's going to be harder to make and borrow money later.
**Mike**: I have no choice but to pay it back.
**Player**: You've borrowed so much money from so many people. You can pay it all back in three days?
**Mike**: More or less, I think.
**Mike**: After all, I'm a business consultant and debt arbitrator.

**-Choice 2.3 - Not bad. You convinced them to go away. - 5 Intimacy**

**Mike**: Ay, I'm not good at anything else. I'm eloquent.
**Mike**: So when it comes to business consultants and debt arbitrators, I'm the best there is.
**Mike**: Everyone else is a distant second.

**-Choice 2.4 - You haven't been looking into my secrets too, have you? - 8 Intimacy**

**Mike**: Don't worry! Why would I do a thing like that?
**Mike**: I don't have any business dealings with you...
**Mike**: Actually that's just part of my job. After all, I often have dealings with other people in my line of work.
**Mike**: Think about it. How could someone advance in high up social circles like these without having dirt on other people?
**Mike**: So everyone's got a pathological relationship with one another. The more you use your leverage on others, the closer they are to you...
**Mike**: And the more willing they are to discuss business honestly.
**Mike**: Without having leverage against someone, then business discussions are like singing without accompanying music - very difficult to pull off.
**Mike**: In fact, it's pretty common in these circles for both people to be using leverage against one another.
**Mike**: Because there's often so much money on the line for both people involved.
**Mike**: If two unarmed people face off against one another, they're going to beat each other bloody and senseless.
**Mike**: But if they're both armed, it's actually a lot safer. They've got their guns trained on one another, and the stakes are so high that neither of them dares to make a move.
**Mike**: Thus, there is harmony, order, and fairness.
**Mike**: Everyone is on their best behavior, and they split the pile of gold between them methodically and fairly.
**Player**: Sounds...scary. But also true.
**Mike**: Yes. With their hidden guns pointed at one another day after day, it can be hard for a lot of people to take the pressure.
**Mike**: Which is why I cherish the friends I have outside this circle.
**Mike**: We don't have our guns aimed at each other. Rather, we embrace one another with warm smiles. It's very hard to come by friends like these.
**Mike**: Why would I risk the friendships I have by conducting investigations on them?
**Player**: I'm sorry, I shouldn't have doubted you.
**Mike**: Haha, there's no need to apologize!
**Mike**: Friends who have known me for less than a year all doubt me.
**Mike**: But there aren't many who would ask me directly like that!
**Mike**: What's more, thanks to your willingness to ask me face-to-face, you've given me an opportunity to confide in you.
**Mike**: I feel a lot better having gotten this stuff off my chest.
*Go back to Choices start*

*Conversation continues after choices*
**Mike**: Over the next three days, I plan on making three deals and resolving three disputes!
**Mike**: Uh, the thing is, I don't think I can do it without your help.
**Player**: Me? What can I do?
**Player**: To be perfectly frank, I know nothing about business.
**Mike**: It doesn't matter. You just need to be the witness!
**Mike**: The three people I'm going to be seeing don't have a lot of trust in me...
**Mike**: Usually I'd bring two boxes of, ah, 'good faith' to buy them off, but I didn't have time to prepare any this time...
**Mike**: What's more, they wouldn't even need the money if I had it.
*Choices start*

**-Choice 3.1 - Do I know these three people?**

**Mike**: Yes, you know them all.
**Mike**: One is the Cannye gang leader Yang.
**Mike**: Another is Dick, the boss of the Red Harbor manufacturing plant.
**Mike**: And the last one is Commander Will, the leader of the Order of Equality's Light of Purity.
**Player**: This is a lot of pressure...
**Player**: Yang and Commander Will won't be a problem, but Dick...
**Player**: I know him well. We celebrate holidays together.
**Mike**: I know. This is the result I wanted.
**Mike**: Dick's a bit of a bully, so I want to put some pressure on him!
**Mike**: Yang once kidnapped Dick. I'm going to take you and Yang's deputy Doug to go find him.
*Go back to Choices start*

**-Choice 3.2 - How do you want me to act?**

**Mike**: Yang is quite cunning and crafting. He cares very much for the Cannye that serve him, so he's going to be very cautious.
**Mike**: But I'm even more cunning than he is. He would never fully trust someone like me.
**Mike**: That's why when the time comes, he's going to ask you some questions.
**Mike**: For example, 'Is Mike being honest?' or 'What do you think about this?' Stuff like that.
**Mike**: And you can answer those questions for me. But don't exaggerate too much!
**Player**: You want me to help you lie to him?
**Mike**: Uh, actually... All I need you to do is convince him that some stuff that's about to happen has already happened. Is that considered lying?
**Player**: Uh, maybe not?
**Mike**: If you see Dick, try to act tough and dignified. We need to try to get the upper hand against him.
**Mike**: Maybe even a little arrogant and disdainful. In short, help me keep up appearances!
**Player**: All right. What about Commander Will?
**Mike**: Once we've dealt with Yang and Dick, Commander Will won't be a problem.
**Mike**: Just be civil and polite!
**Mike**: Oh, yeah. You must not drink in front of Commander Will!
**Player**: Yeah, I know.
**Mike**: Then are you willing to go with me?
*Go back to Choices start*

**-Choice 3.2 - All right, I'll go with you. - 11 Intimacy**

**Mike**: Haha, great!
**Mike**: Don't you have an airship that we can go in?
**Player**: Why do I feel like you're taking advantage of me?
**Player**: You called me to come hang out, and now I'm your chauffeur?
**Mike**: Come on, your friend needs help. You can't just stand by and do nothing...
**Mike**: Once we're done, I'll take you out for a meal and some drinks!
**Mike**: I guarantee you'll have a good time!
**Player**: All right. So we're going to Yang's first?
**Mike**: Right. Let's go!
*Go to Part 2*

**-Choice 3.4 - Nah, I don't wanna go.**

**Mike**: ...All right.
**Mike**: Hold on while I take care of this matter.
**Mike**: Then we'll go out and have some fun!
**Mike**: I'm going now.
*Scene ends*

**-Part 2**

*Scene - Yang's base*
**Mike**: Boss Yang! I trust you have been well since we last met?
**Yang**: Hmph. Every time you come here empty-handed, and you walk away with my money.
**Yang**: Tell me, what's your scheme this time?
**Yang**: Huh? What are you doing with Mike?
**Player**: He wants to talk some business with you and he asked me to serve as witness.
**Mike**: That's right. He's a mutual friend and he doesn't have anything to do with this business.
**Mike**: He'll be an impartial witness.
**Yang**: All right. I have no objection to that.
**Yang**: State your business.
**Mike**: I was just planning on telling you.
**Mike**: The reason why I've come empty-handed is because I've brought you two large gifts. However, these gifts cannot be seen or touched...
**Yang**: Cut the crap.
**Mike**: The first one is the seat of the Vice President of the Elysiann Merchants Guild.
**Yang**: Oh? You want me to join the guild?
**Yang**: And you want me to be its vice president?
**Mike**: You've got two major specialties you're well known for.
**Mike**: The first is your ability to steal.
**Mike**: Once you've got your eye on something, there's nothing anyone can do to stop you. As a result, if someone ever set their eye on of your goods...
**Mike**: They wouldn't stand a chance, right?
**Mike**: The second is your ability to trade.
**Mike**: All of those you've had dealings with in the past, including those you've stolen from, have praised your reputation and your ability to manage problems.
**Mike**: Thus, you would make an excellent vice president.
**Yang**: Save your breath, Mike. What's in it for you?
**Yang**: What's the catch?
**Mike**: It's very simple. To preserve the guild's reputation and trustworthiness, after you join the guild, you must not steal from merchants anymore.
**Yang**: I can agree to that. I'll still steal from the White Capes, though.
**Mike**: No problem.
**Yang**: Anything else?
**Mike**: Uh, out of consideration for the feelings of the other members of the guild, it will take about half a year for you to become the vice president. I can guarantee it won't take longer than a year.
**Yang**: Half a year. For these six months, what if the members of the Merchants Guild don't want to do business with me?
**Mike**: This is the second gift I've brought to you.
**Mike**: I will help you find business. I will even take thirty percent off my consultation fee. This offer is valid for a lifetime.
**Mike**: In addition, for these six months, you will represent the Order of Equality in 20% of the industries in the Elysiann market, with profits to be divided between the Order, you, and me.
**Mike**: At a ratio of 5:4:1, respectively.
**Mike**: The conditions are...
**Mike**: You must concede to the Light of Purity. You need to show everyone that they've healed you, that you've turned over a new leaf, and that you won't rob caravans anymore.
**Mike**: If you can agree to the above conditions... Heh heh, I'll just collect the consultation fee and be on my way.
**Mike**: If we add up 5% of the sum of the vice president's job valuation and the half-year valuation of the 20% lease in the Order of Equality's Elysiann market...
**Mike**: With a thirty percent discount, of course!
**Mike**: Look...
**Yang**: Can you vouch for what Mike's said?
**Player**: (He didn't ask me if what he said was true, he asked me if I could vouch for him...)
**Player**: (I have no idea what Mike was talking about. Can I vouch for him?)
**Player**: (I can't leave Mike in a lurch, but I also can't exaggerate anything. I need to come up with something to say.)

**-Choice 1.1 - I can. - 5 Intimacy**

**Yang**: I don't trust many people. And those who do violate my trust pay a heavy price.
**Yang**: Can you vouch for it?
**Player**: I can.
**Yang**: Haha, you're the best.

**-Choice 1.2 - I can vouch for most of what he's said.**

**Yang**: Good. What can't you vouch for?
*Choice 1.2.1 - I don't know about the profit shares. - 8 Intimacy*
**Yang**: Haha, you really are an honest person inexperienced in the ways of business.
**Yang**: I don't need you to vouch for that.
**Yang**: If I'm in control of 20% of the industry, I'll know everything that's going on, and Mike won't be able to renege on his debts.
*Choice 1.2.2 - I can't guarantee the consultation fees won't go up in price. - 11 Intimacy*
**Player**: If the consultation fees go up, even with the thirty percent discount, they could get pretty expensive.
**Yang**: Haha, you really are looking out for me.
**Yang**: He can increase the consultation fees if he likes.
**Yang**: As long as he doesn't have any problem delivering on his promises, I would be happy to give him the money.
**Mike**: (Whisper) Pretty good. I thought you said you don't know anything about business?!
**Player**: (Whisper) Heh, heh...
*Choice 1.2.3 - I don't know anything about the situation with the Order of Equality!*
**Yang**: Hmph. So what you mean to say is you can't guarantee anything?
**Player**: Oh, uh...
**Yang**: You're been very candid with me. I appreciate it.
**Yang**: But Mike, you've come to my territory to make fun of me?
**Player**: Hold on, I just said I don't know anything. I didn't mean to imply that he was lying!
**Mike**: (Whisper) Stay calm. Let me handle this.
**Mike**: Boss Yang, about this business, before the final decision is made, do you think...
**Mike**: That it's better to have more people in the know? Or less?
**Mike**: Especially when it comes to these kinds of details and business secrets.
**Mike**: He's come here as a witness. And as a witness, his usefulness comes later on, not today.
**Mike**: Trust is a whole bowl of rice, and a consultation fee is but a mere mouthful. You should know which I treasure more, Boss Yang.
**Yang**: Hmph. I will trust you this once.

*Conversation continues after choices*
**Mike**: Then...do we have a deal?
**Yang**: I would like to hear the opinion of our impartial friend here first.
**Mike**: (Whisper) Hey, it's your turn!
**Player**: (Whisper) Me?
**Mike**: (Whisper) Of course, you!
*Choices start*

**-Choice 2.1 - This is a more stable, safer life.**

**Player**: Mike said that there are two things about you that are well-known.
**Player**: One is that you're a bandit. This will only push people away from you.
**Player**: The other is that you're a natural businessman. Everyone wants to make money with you.
**Player**: The path of a businessman is more stable and smooth. It's also safer.
**A Cannye Minion**: Boss! We don't have to concede to the Light of Purity! We don't steal to get rich, we...
**Yang**: Is this the place for you to talk?
**Yang**: Continue.
*Go back to Choices start*

**-Choice 2.2 - That Cannye in the shelter... - 11 Intimacy**

**Player**: Isn't he willing to send the Cannye from the shelter to work with the merchants?
**Yang**: Hmph. You're right.
**Yang**: And he's willing to accept the support of the merchants.
**Yang**: And it's not dirty money.
**Player**: Then...this should be the deciding factor, right?
**Yang**: Hmph. Well, we've talked about the advantages. Let's discuss disadvantages.
*Go back to Choices start*

**-Choice 2.3 - There are some disadvantages...**

**Player**: First of all, the transition period will be a bit difficult, and business will not be good for the first half of the year.
**Yang**: As long as we've got the Order's market in Elysiann, my brothers won't go hungry.
**Player**: Mmm. Another thing is, once you've been a businessman for a few years, if there's a downturn in the economy...
**Player**: It would be very difficult to start robbing again.
**Player**: The first is, it would cause more trouble with the Light of Purity.
**Player**: Second is that your brothers would not be as used to that lifestyle, having been businessmen for a while.
**Player**: The third is...
**Yang**: We don't need to analyze these any further. If I keep on as a robber for several more years, I won't be able to become a businessman.
**Yang**: In front of me are two roads to choose from.
**Yang**: I'm more familiar with both of these roads than you are.
**Yang**: What are the other disadvantages?
**Player**: Uh, let me think...
**Mike**: (Whisper) That's enough, you don't need to say anymore.
**Player**: (Whisper) What's wrong? You afraid I'll say too much?
**Mike**: (Whisper) Honestly, he's mostly worried about Jonas.
**Player**: (Whisper) The leader of the Order of Equality, Jonas?
**Mike**: (Whisper) Commander Will is a righteous officer. All he knows how to do is face the enemy on the battlefield.
**Mike**: (Whisper) As for Eddie, I don't need to say more.
**Mike**: (Whisper) So Jonas is the key factor. He is a corrupt officer and he isn't a businessman.
**Player**: (Whisper) You mean to say, Yang is fighting for this opportunity? Then why is he so against the Light of Purity?
**Mike**: (Whisper) He's showing off what he's capable of. And he's giving Jonas the opportunity to take the high road.
**Mike**: (Whisper) He's not such a bad guy!
**Mike**: (Whisper) However, if he becomes a businessman now, his previous conflict with the Light of Purity will seem like it was all for nothing.
**Player**: (Whisper) You mean if Yang agrees to this deal, he might lose his chance to become an officer of the Order of Equality?!
**Mike**: (Whisper) That's right! However, Boss Yang is an empathetic guy.
**Mike**: (Whisper) I'm guessing that for the sake of the Cannye in the shelter, he'll decide to...
**Yang**: Are you two done with your discussion yet? What's the verdict?
**Mike**: We've talked it over, Boss Yang, and we don't have any other concerns!
**Player**: Ah! Nice!
**Yang**: Good. It's a deal, then.
**Player**: (He really agreed to it...)
**Yang**: When will I receive the contract from the Order of Equality and the Elysiann Merchants Guild? And the peace agreement from the Light of Purity?
**Mike**: The evening of the day after tomorrow.
**Yang**: The evening of the day after tomorrow. We'll exchange money and signatures.
**Mike**: Another matter. I was wondering if I could borrow someone from you, Boss Yang? I'll bring them back with me the day after tomorrow.
**Yang**: Huh? So you haven't discussed this with Will or Jonas? You've just given me a phony promise?
**Mike**: Haha, nothing gets past you.
**Yang**: Doug, go with him.
**Doug**: Yes.
**Yang**: I await your good news.
**Mike**: Do not worry. See you soon!
**Mike**: Doug, let's go see an old friend!
*Go to Part 3*

**-Part 3**

*Scene - Dick's factory*
*Dick is surrounded by bodyguards and attack robots*
**Mike**: Huh? Is this how you greet a creditor?
**Dick**: Boss Mike, if you'd come alone there'd be no issue.
**Dick**: But since you've brought the two of them with you, don't blame me if I turn you all over to the White Capes!
**Mike**: If you want to arrest us, then arrest us.
**Mike**: The Elysiann Merchant Guild, Never Isle, or Yang's Black Claws - tell me, which one can you afford to piss off?
**Mike**: Are you trying to offend all of them at once?
**Dick**: You...
**Dick**: I can't afford to piss them off, but the White Capes are still going to deal with you!
**Mike**: You think the White Capes don't know who I am?
**Dick**: ...What?
**Mike**: You don't seem to understand how well-respected my family is in Crossport.
**Dick**: You don't have any family left. Don't lie to me.
**Mike**: Maybe not. But I've still got the wealth. And I've still got connections all over.
**Mike**: Let me rephrase the question. You, the White Capes, the Elysiann Merchant Guild, Never Isle, or the Black Claws - which of these wants to lose money?
**Dick**: Uh, Boss Mike. I've heard that you have a lot of debt. Do you even have any money?
**Mike**: Forget it. I don't like to waste opportunities on fools.
**Mike**: And I don't plan on making an exception for you.
**Player**: (He's so imposing. Mike's pretty good at acting...)
*Mike turns to Player*
**Mike**: I've got a tee time with Mr. Madison. Let's go.
**Dick**: Mr. Madison?!
**Dick**: Hold on!
**Dick**: Don't tell me you're going to say bad things about me so he won't give me components and devices anymore?!
**Dick**: If that's the case, my factory...
**Mike**: He doesn't want to give you supplies in the first place. I don't even need to say anything!
**Dick**: Uh...uh...
**Mike**: I wanted to put in a good word with him for you, but your attitude...
**Dick**: I'm sorry, Boss Mike! You can go! You're free!
**Dick**: What are you staring off into space for?! Get out of here!
**Security Guards**: Yes, sir!
**Robots**: Beep! Beep!
*The guards and robots leave*
**Dick**: Heh heh. Boss Mike, if there's anything I can do, let me know and I'll do it!
**Mike**: First, stop your dealings with the White Capes.
**Dick**: Uh...You see...
**Mike**: What have the White Capes given you?
**Dick**: But if you say so, I'll stop dealing with them. I should also add that I've helped shelter yellow...er...Gyee in the past...
**Mike**: The Light of Purity has some orders they'd like to place with you. They want you to produce some mechanical weapons and equipment for them.
**Mike**: They'll buy them at less than market price. Also, I'm going to charge a consultation fee of 5%. No discount.
**Dick**: Uh...You see, Boss Mike, I don't have a problem with any of that...
**Dick**: Except the part about lower than market price...
**Mike**: Do you accept or not? I need your reply.
**Mike**: I don't want to keep Mr. Madison waiting.
**Dick**: All right! I accept!
**Mike**: All right. Then you'll need to get ready to expand your factory. Understand?
**Dick**: Haha, so these are big orders, right?!
**Mike**: You think I'm a man who likes to waste my time?
**Dick**: No, that's not what I meant!
**Dick**: Thank you, Boss Mike. I'll make the expansions!
**Mike**: I'll come back to you with the Light of Purity's orders later.
**Mike**: Finally, a personal suggestion.
**Mike**: Give the Thor Robot Beast's blueprints to Commander Will.
**Dick**: These blueprints are a business secret. Why would I give them to him?
**Mike**: The Light of Purity not only has the Thor Robot Beast blueprints, they've also made modifications so the mech is a lot stronger than what you've got.
**Dick**: Then...they don't need my blueprints?
**Mike**: It's because you don't know.
**Mike**: You don't know that they have the blueprints. And they don't know if you know they have the blueprints.
**Mike**: If you send the blueprints to them, it doesn't benefit them at all, and you lose nothing.
**Mike**: But this move would be a gesture of good faith on your part. It would make them more likely to be willing to work with you.
**Dick**: Ah, I understand!
**Dick**: Thank you for your advice, Boss Mike!
**Dick**: Here you go, Boss Mike. Here are the Thor Robot Beast blueprints. I always keep them on my person.
**Dick**: Please help me take them to Commander Will. Thank you!
**Mike**: All right. Be on the lookout for my message.
**Dick**: Take care of yourself, Boss Mike!
*Mike, Player and Doug leave*
**Mike**: Haha, I finally got his blueprints!
**Mike**: These will sell for a premium.
**Player**: You're just all full of evil tricks, aren't you?
**Doug**: No wonder my boss said I shouldn't trust you...
**Mike**: Don't be like that. Even when I do bad things, I still share the profits. When have I ever cheated your boss?!
**Doug**: Sure, you say that to our faces. But what are you really thinking in private?
**Mike**: Come on, you worry too much. Your boss is a friend of mine. Ask around. When have I ever cheated a friend?
**Mike**: Let's go. We need to go get Commander Will to sign the agreement!
**Doug**: Huh? Didn't you say you were going golfing with somebody?
**Doug**: I've never played before...
**Player**: Haha, he was lying to Dick. You bought it, too?
**Player**: If you want to play so bad, ask Wesley and let Mike take you to play some day!
**Player**: Let's go!
*Scene - Outside the Order of Equality*
**Mike**: Commander Will, I see you're looking as tough as ever!
**Will**: Mmm, Boss Mike. It's been a while.
**Player**: Hello, General! You're here, too, Eddie!
**Eddie**: I thought Boss Mike was here to talk business with the General. Why are you here?
**Player**: It's complicated. I'll tell you some other time!
**Mike**: These two...
**Will**: This guy I know.
**Will**: As for this Cannye...aren't you Yang's assistant, Doug?
**Doug**: Yes, sir. The boss sent me to talk over some matters with you.
**Will**: Oh? What would I have to discuss with him?
**Mike**: General, do you remember those problems you mentioned the last time we had tea together?
**Mike**: After a month of hard and enthusiastic work, I may have solved two of them for you.
**Player**: (He just passed off three days' work as two months'. It's hard to tell where the truth ends and the lies begin with this guy...)
**Will**: Oh? Would these two problems be related to Yang?
**Mike**: That's right. The first: Yang will declare that he will be purified by the Light of Purity. He will turn over a new leaf and stop robbing caravans.
**Will**: Is this true?
**Mike**: Doug can verify it.
**Doug**: What Mike said is true, Commander Will, sir.
**Doug**: We Black Claws will no longer be the enemy of the Light of Purity. Henceforth, we will join Mike's merchant guild and do business! No more robbing!
**Mike**: However, the White Capes they will keep robbing. After all...
**Will**: No matter. I well understand the White Cape problem.
**Will**: However, it couldn't have been easy to get Yang to take this step. Did you offer him lots of profits?
**Will**: And are you planning for the Light of Purity to foot the bill for these profits?
**Mike**: First please let me tell you the second thing, General...
**Mike**: Boss Dick of the heavy mech factory, the man who used to be hostile to Gyee and once took Master Turing hostage...
**Mike**: Has decided to end all dealings with the White Capes and provide the Light of Purity with heavy mechanical weapons and equipment at less than market price.
**Mike**: Dick may not be much of a man, but when it comes to making machines, he is definitely a specialist.
**Mike**: All of the machines made in his factory are up to the highest standard.
**Will**: Good. That's very good.
**Will**: Tell me, it can't be so simple as a 5% consultation fee this time, can it?
**Mike**: Uh, indeed. This time, I won't accept a consultation fee.
**Will**: Haha, well come out with it. I'm ready.
**Mike**: I want all the proxy rights for the Order of Equality's Elysiann market, for a period of two years.
**Will**: And the profit ratio?
**Mike**: The Order of Equality and I will split them fifty-fifty.
**Will**: The Elysiann market is very important to the Order of Equality. On this matter, I cannot speak on behalf of President Jonas.
**Mike**: If you can't speak on his behalf, why did you ask me about the profit ratio?
**Mike**: What's more, President Jonas handed over management of the Elysiann market's industries to you. I know this much...
**Will**: You may be younger than I, but when it comes to matters of business, I am less experienced than you are.
**Will**: Since you have already figured this out, you should already know that I can't just let you take half of the profits for yourself.
**Mike**: General, I'm not taking half the profits for myself.
**Mike**: My merchant guild and I will take these profits and double them, and take half of those profits. We would never cheat you.
**Mike**: What's more, this would also save massive management costs.
**Mike**: I hear that lately you've been busy with military reform as prepartion for war with the shadows, and making money doing logistics...
**Mike**: Why don't you hand some of it off to someone you can trust?
**Will**: I want sixty percent.
**Mike**: General, fifty-fifty is the current fair proxy price. It's not very much.
**Mike**: Besides, isn't Mr. Jonas interested in doing business in Crossport?
**Mike**: I was once the head of the richest family in Crossport...
**Mike**: Though my family's not there anymore, I've still got many connections around Crossport. I'm still intimately involved with operations there.
**Will**: Very well, Mike.
**Will**: Then I can agree to fifty-fifty.
**Will**: However, two years is too long. Let us first agree to one year. And depending on how well you manage it, and how well we work together...
**Will**: I'll consider extending that agreement.
**Mike**: Thank you, General!
**Will**: Eddie, please handle everything we just talked about. Draw up some materials and bring them to me.
**Eddie**: An industry proxy agreement for the Elysiann market, a peace treaty between the Light of Purity and the Black Claw, and an order form for heavy machinery.
**Eddie**: Is that right, General?
**Will**: Yes. Quickly. We must not keep Boss Mike waiting too long.
**Eddie**: I understand.
*Eddie leaves for a short period*
**Player**: Eddie's been gone a while.
**Mike**: Shouldn't be too much longer. The Order of Equality is very efficient.
**Will**: Mike, have you thought over my previous proposal?
**Will**: You've proven yourself to be quite the talented fellow, especially after this!
**Will**: President Jonas is always very generous with his money when it comes to talented individuals.
**Mike**: Haha, of course. Mr. Jonas's generosity is legendary!
**Mike**: However, what with all this, you can see...
**Mike**: I've already given the Order of Equality so much, haven't I?
**Will**: Haha, what a smooth talker!
**Will**: Then tell me, since you don't need to worry about money anymore, why won't you accept?
**Mike**: Commander Will, you know I am not so ambitious...
**Mike**: I just want to have a good time, eat some good food, and enjoy myself.
**Will**: And that's not ambitious?!
**Mike**: Don't make fun of me, General. I'm too lazy. I just want to have fun.
**Mike**: No matter how much money I've got, I'll find a way to be penniless in two or three days...
**Player**: Haha, it's true! I can attest to that!
**Mike**: I don't care if it's my own money, but if it were the Order of Equality's money...
**Will**: All right, all right. I see I can't convince you.
**Will**: Let's just keep working together. The door to the Order of Equality will always be open to you.
**Mike**: Thank you for your kindness, General!
*Eddie comes back*
**Eddie**: General, here are the three documents you requested.
**Will**: Let me see.
**Will**: Hm...
**Will**: Very good.
**Will**: Have a look over these, Boss Mike. Has anything been left out?
**Mike**: Hm...
**Mike**: I don't see any glaring issues.
**Mike**: Please change this so that it says if the Order of Equality's Elysiann market suffers losses, the Elysiann Merchant Guild will bear the full brunt of those losses.
**Mike**: Sorry for taking up so much of your time, General!
**Will**: It's no matter.
**Mike**: Sorry, Boss Eddie!
**Eddie**: It's fine. Please wait a moment.
*Eddie leaves again*
**Will**: You're very a responsible man.
**Mike**: Honestly, General...
**Mike**: Losses are impossible.
**Mike**: But this clause will show that the merchant guild can be trusted. That we are honorable...
**Will**: Oh, I see!
**Will**: Seems like I could learn a thing or two about the details of doing business from Boss Mike!
*Eddie comes back*
**Eddie**: General, Mike, the documents have been adjusted.
**Mike**: No problem. Thank you, Boss Eddie!
**Mike**: Then that will be farewell.
**Mike**: Over the next couple days, I'm going to get Dick and Yang's signatures and I'll have a signed copy back to you within a week.
**Will**: Well, good-bye. Until next time.
**Mike**: Good-bye, General!
**Player**: Good-bye, General! See you later, Eddie!
**Doug**: Good bye.
*Once Dick and Yang have signed the peace agreement, I can get the consultation fee.*
*Scene - Back at Eversun, meeting with the merchants*
**Mike**: Everything set?
**Mike**: I don't owe you anything else?
**Mr. George**: Well done... You made all this in three days?
**Boss Charles**: How did you do this?
**Mike**: What was it you called me? A 'business matchmaker?'
**Mike**: Business matchmakers do their best work when it's coming down to the wire.
**Young Master Luke**: I'm sorry, Boss Mike.
**Mike**: You have nothing to be sorry for. Do I look like the kind of guy who'd hold grudges against his friends?
**Mike**: As for these 'old friends' of yours...
**Mike**: They don't want to do business with me again in the future?
**Madam Madeline**: Boss Mike, what are you talking about? We...
**Madam Madeline**: This is also being rushed. There was just some temporary confusion.
**Boss Charles**: Yes, Mr. President. You have always been very generous. Please don't worry about this matter...
**Mike**: Generous? Is that why you waited until I didn't have my bodyguard around to threaten me?
**Mike**: The most important thing is that you ruined my and my friend here's good mood. What should we do about that?
**Boss Charles**: Uh... How about this, Mr. President? And Mr. Boss, sir...
**Boss Charles**: We'd like to invite the two of you to my tavern.
**Boss Charles**: Our tavern is one of the top-ranked taverns in the world! I can personally guarantee you'll have a great time!
**Boss Charles**: And you can drink wine to your hearts' content!
**Mike**: Even that wine that's been aged over thirty years?
**Boss Charles**: Uh...of course! Of course!
**Boss Charles**: I would be too embarrassed to give you anything less!
**Mike**: Very well. The people at our Merchant Guild are on a whole other level. Very good people!
**Mike**: The next time there's an opportunity to make money, I'll be sure to cut you in!
**Boss Charles**: Heh heh. Thank you Mr. President!
**Madam Madeline**: Boss Mike... We've got several factories that produce...
**Mike**: Ah, factories. Not interested.
**Mike**: What about Mr. George?
**Madam Madeline**: Hold on, Boss Mike! I've got three silver coins from Azria!
**Madam Madeline**: They're from the first batch of out-of-print sterling silver coins made during the Azura period!
**Mike**: You've got stuff like that?
**Mike**: Are you willing to sell it to me for cheap?
**Madam Madeline**: I'll give them to you free of charge! But...I need a small favor.
**Madam Madeline**: Ah, you want to spend some time with your friends. We can talk business later!
**Mike**: No worries. I'll come find you later!
**Mike**: As long as these silver coins are for real and you aren't playing a trick on me, heh heh!
**Mr. George**: Boss Mike, lately my line of capital has been broken...
**Mr. George**: If you hadn't helped me out when I was in need, I might have gone bankrupt already...
**Mr. George**: But at that point, I'd already sold lots of my valuables...
**Mr. George**: I really...
**Mike**: You sold them all? You didn't sell any to me?
**Mr. George**: Uh...I...
**Mike**: Anyway, your personal trainer. What's his name? Emilio?
**Mr. George**: Ah, that's right. His name is Emilio. Why do you bring him up?
**Mike**: You're getting pretty old. You don't exercise all that often, right?
**Mike**: But I like to exercise!
**Mike**: What would you think if I asked him to come train me?
**Mr. George**: But...Emilio's already forty years old...
**Mike**: Forty years old is fine by me! He's mature, stable, and experienced. He'll also be skilled in business!
**Mr. George**: All right!
**Mr. George**: Then...as for business...
**Mike**: Don't worry. I'll come find you soon.
**Mike**: Relax. If I can't solve a problem, no one can.
**Mike**: All right. My friend and I are hungry!
**Mike**: That little thing three days ago? I'll pretend it never happened. You all can leave now!
**People**: See you, Boss Mike.
**Mike**: Take care!
*Everyone leaves*
**Mike**: Haha, business has been taken care of! I can finally relax!
**Mike**: Business really takes a lot of you!
**Player**: You've made all that money in three days and taken so much profit for yourself, what do you have to complain about?
**Player**: You'll not only pay off your debt, but you'll also have a bunch left!
**Mike**: There's a lot left, but...
**Mike**: Let me see the books...
**Mike**: Huh? That can't be. I'm looking at this wrong...
**Player**: Don't tell me you still owe a lot?
*Mike shook his head sadly.*
**Mike**: Looks like what I paid back today...
**Mike**: Is just a fraction...
**Mike**: Of a fraction...
**Player**: Heavens, how much money do you owe?!
**Player**: You still want to have fun at a time like this? And you still have to spend so much to...
**Mike**: Money is made by earning it, not by saving!
**Mike**: It's at times like these that I want to have fun the most...
**Mike**: Having fun can let me forget my problems...
**Player**: Wake up. You'll have to pay it back sooner or later, why would you want to forget...
**Mike**: What you're saying makes sense.
**Mike**: However, I don't need to pay it back today!
**Mike**: It's like they say, why do today what you can put off till tomorrow?
**Mike**: Seafood, the villa, men surfing on a tornado! We'll see it all!
**Mike**: Let's go!
**Player**: You are something else...
**Player**: The money you make is a stream, the money you spend is a waterfall...
**Player**: No wonder you're in debt.
*Scene ends*

## Audio

*Note: Skins will use the audio from the basic skin unless indicated otherwise.*"

### Mike's Basic Skin

* **Butler Interactions**
	+ Before Intimacy Level 7
		- **Head**: *I got good eyes. Eyesight, not so much.*
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		- **Torso**: *You, uh, like my tie? Or is it the shirt behind the tie?*
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		- **Waist**: *I wanna get up, but the recliner wouldn't let go of my butt. Care to give me a hand?*
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	+ After reaching Intimacy Level 7
		- **Head**: *Hey, you know me! I make money on my name.*
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		- **Torso**: *Touch my pecs? Sure! Why don't you, uh, make me an offer?*
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		- **Waist**: *It's bad to sit for too long, so gotta lie down every once in a while.*
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* **Skills**
	+ **Basic**: *Thirty-one percent off for you!*
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	+ **Advanced**: *Where's the camera?*
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	+ **Ultimate**: *Money is the root of all damage!*
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* **Arrival**: *Fair deals for all! What, you're not buying it?*
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* **Display Voice 1**: *What can buy happiness if not money?*
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* **Display Voice 2**: *"Santer"? Who's Santer? Is that even a name?*
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* **Display Voice 3**: *Oh, you want to talk about me. Okay. Why don't we talk about the money I loaned you.*
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* **Hit**: *Awww.*
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* **Dying**: *Where... is he?*
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### Mike's Snow Skin

* **Arrival**: *Ice Spirit Festival hot sale! Thirty-one percent off for all goods! Clear prices! H-hey! Morning!*
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* **Display Voice 1**: *Check out my new Ice Spirit Festival logo! What you think?*
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* **Display Voice 2**: *Ah... I prepared a gift for you! Where is it?... Oh, wait a sec!*
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