Week 271! (Page 459 Script) (Patreon)

THIS MARKS PAYMENT FOR THE WEEK OF 10/13-10/19.

A little bit unfortunate but a second script update is necessary for the month, so here's page 459, the second part of this little "two-part" thing here. Mostly it's a two-part cause it was one script broken up into two pages cause it was way too long otherwise, as much as I'd prefer it was one page in order to cut down as much as possible on pages.

Anyway, this page has Lucy doing the actual apology for her teasing and other stuff concerning Fox Kale, recognizing that a lot of bad stuff has happened to Fox Kale lately, that he's clearly feeling inferior and abused with his "weakness" on-display and the betrayals both real and perceived, and her belittling of him or not seeming to take things seriously or expediently is affecting him so negatively. She does genuinely want to help the both of them. She doesn't want to be Fox Kale's enemy in the slightest, so at this point she feels the need to get down to brass tacks and really lay out as much as possible how she is actually serious about this.

Of course, this isn't totally her fault, and she's not saying it is with this apology either. If you'll recall the 16th arc, Fox Kale and Lucy had several confrontations during that, ranging from snark being exchanged to nearly actually coming to blows, and Lucy was always the one trying to resolve and settle things as best she could. She's been trying, and Fox Kale has just sort of maintained this attitude towards her, however justified or not it may be. He did apologize to her at the end of the 16th arc, but obviously things got reignited here. This apology of Lucy's is more just her trying to legitimately and more permanently cool things down so they really can get down to learning and training for the stuff ahead, being more understanding of the things behind Fox Kale's attitude and actions and trying to more permanently build that trust she needs from him that's so hard to build otherwise.

I think this was necessary to put in because, when you get down to it, Fox Kale has basically spent a lot of time lately just getting very very angry at Lucy and then getting talked down by either Kale or Lucy. Doing it again is something that sort of was going to happen no matter what considering how Lucy is, and having Fox Kale once again get very mad at Lucy and then back down would be a little much for him considering how last-straw he keeps sounding each time. It really does need to be the last-straw here or else it just unintentionally becomes a joke, and not a good one.

We'll be moving onto the actual lesson stuff, learning about how this silly combat stuff works in the mindscape, in the next couple of pages.