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schoenheit
Card: [SR] (A Gentle Moment) Owen
Event: N/A ( Initial / Main Story )
Characters: Owen, Owen (wound), Snow, White
Chapter One ✧ Chapter Two ✧ Training Episode
Chapter One
Location: Manor Hallway (Night)
Snow: My, the stars tonight appear to be in a merry mood indeed.
White: Indeed, the stars, too, must be rejoicing at the arrival of our Sage.
Snow: Oh! Look there.
White: What a pleasant surprise.
Owen: ... Well, if it isn't our dear Northern instructors, the twins. Shouldn't you two be quietly locked away in a portrait around this time?
Snow: It's precisely because we're within the portrait that we have so little to do.
White: We're so bored.
Owen: The way the two of you can just stroll out of your portrait is pretty dull... Why don't I make it so you can't leave the portrait at all instead?
Should I burn it away until there's not a trace of it left? Or, should I crush it into tiny, little pieces? Hey... What should I do?
Snow: Should you do anything of the sort, we'll punish you.
White: We'll have to punish you until you reflect on your actions in full, understood?
Owen: Haha. No need to tell me twice.
???: Meow~
Snow: Hm? Did you say something just now?
White: It was not I.
Owen: ... It must have been this.
Snow: Hm? Down there?
???: Meow~
Snow: Well, if it isn't a cat!
White: My, a little kitten!
Snow: This way; come here. Let the two of us embrace y—
Cat: Meow~ Meow—!
White: Mrrrrr... Now you've made it flee from us.
Snow: What a terribly cautious child.
Owen: It's obviously because the two of you are terrifying.
Snow & White: How terrible, to look upon a pair of such adorable twins and think we might be fearsome!!
Cat: Mro~w.
Snow & White: Hm?
Chapter Two
(Sound of footsteps)
Cat: Mro~w~ Mro~w~
Owen: ......
Snow: My, it's quite fond of you.
White: It just refuses to stop rubbing up against your leg.
Owen: It's not as if I want it to be "fond" of me or anything.
Cat: Meow~ Meow~
Snow: He's turned and left without even giving it a passing glance.
White: There's something particularly admirable about how fervently it follows after him.
Snow: Do you think the kitten will catch up to him?
White: I imagine it likely won't.
Snow: I'm worried for it. However, it's so very cautious of us.
Snow & White: Oh, why has it gone to Owen instead of sweet little Snow and White...?
✧✧✧
Location: Snow and White's Room (Night)
Snow: (Yawn)... My eyelids grow heavier and heavier.
Cat: Meow~
Snow: Was that... the voice of that kitten?
White: Snow, look outside.
Snow: Hm?
✧✧✧
Location: Manor Courtyard (Night)
Owen (wound): Ahaha, that tickles.
Cat: Meow~ Meow~
Owen (wound): Do you like me?
Heheheh, you're sososo fluffy, I love you, too.
Cat: Mro~w~
Owen (wound): I'm not alone anymore. I'm gonna hug you the whole entire night.
(Blushes) Mmmmm~... You're so warm... And you smell so nice...
✧✧✧
Location: Snow and White's Room (Night)
Snow: My, this is... quite adorable, isn't it?
White: Quite endearing, it is.
Snow: Animals understand the hearts of people better than people themselves do. Perhaps that kitten understood...
White: ... Owen's true self, dwelling deep within the depths of his heart.
Snow & White: So it wouldn't be strange if it fell for him! My, oh, my!
Training Episode: A Cat Person and Dog Person Walk into a Bar
Location: Owen's Room
Akira: Owen, you can talk to animals, but would you say you ascribe more to the cat cult or the dog dogma?[1]
Owen: What are you talking about? Is that like being the follower of some kind of faith? Do people really erect idols of cats and dogs and fight religious wars in their names?
Akira: Ummm.... It's... more of a casual thing.
Owen: There was a time where there was a war between the cat sect and dog sect, back during the era Faust played an active role in things. He was in the cat sect, and humans were the dog sect.
Akira: Is that really what they were fighting over...?
Owen: No clue.
Akira: Which camp do you prefer, Owen?
Owen: Me? Both are fine by me, but I've kept the company of wolves for a long time. So I guess I'm more inclined toward the dog faction...
Akira: Huh!?!?!
Owen: ......
Akira: I'm a cat person.
Owen: I really don't care...
Akira: You don't think cats are cute?
Owen: Dogs are cuter. And whenever I talk to cats, they don't have anything worthwhile to say.
Akira: Huh?! Wait, what do cats normally think about!? Please, I want to know!
Owen: I won't tell you. Because I'm a dog person.
Translation Notes (SR)
1. In the original text, Akira just asks Owen if he's a cat person or a dog person, but this is modern slang, which confuses Owen. In Japanese, "cat person" is neko-ha (猫派), and "dog person" is inu-ha (犬派). Literally, these words mean "cat sect" and "dog sect," and this particular kanji for "sect" can be used to refer to religious sects or political affiliations. Thus, Owen took the slang literally and interpreted Akira to be asking if he was part of a religious sect dedicated to cats, or a religious sect dedicated to dogs. I tried to preserve the misunderstanding best I could in English. ↑
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