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Yuri Leclerc ([personal profile] playfoul) wrote in [community profile] jigokulogs 2022-05-20 07:32 am (UTC)

[ Yuri listens to Xingqiu recount the tale as they begin to unload the boxes. There are turns he didn't expect, and sides to the characters that he hadn't realized. As the last can is emptied, the story, too, reaches its conclusion.

The ending's not the victorious heist it could have been, but an unexpectedly somber way to close out the adventure with its boy hero giving up seafaring and haunted every night by ghosts. ]


Guess a rouge life's not for everyone. After all that, they only took a portion of the treasure, huh. I suppose we're meant to think that wisdom is its own treasure.

[ Not that wisdom by itself does much to put food on the table, but he gets what they're going for narratively. There's definitely a moral here, and it makes him crack a smirk. ]

Makes me wonder if I've been too greedy.

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