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It looks like you have something on your mind.

Your tone is much softer than it used to be.

That's not what you're thinking. But if you'd like, I can be harsher with you.

Tell me about the kitten.;...Rosmontis.;I want to talk about the silver-haired girl.

You were very lucky back there.

Taking a step back, it may be that Rosmontis likes you. She controlled her outburst.

Otherwise you would have bitten off your own tongue watching Amiya and I guide her, and seeing the manifestation of her Arts.

...Rosmontis was born in a lab.

She did not suffer the same tragedy as most experimental Infected. She did not die from the increasingly cruel experiments.

As the project moved forward, she gradually crushed the entire facility.

The lab did not destroy her, she destroyed it. Her Arts are tied to her mental state.

The group that found her and smuggled her to Rhodes Island has made it clear that 'Rosmontis does not exist.'

I know what you're thinking. And no, through force or coercion, I would never allow an individual who has been through that to become an operator.

But Rosmontis herself chose responsibility, training, and companionship.

With her subconscious Arts usage causing constant damage, the caster operators decided to train her. She had to mature faster than the others, which she fortunately wanted to do.

We didn't want to abandon her to the wilderness. We did not want to inject her with suppressants. And we certainly didn't want Rhodes Island to be reduced to a heap of pulverized shrapnel.

This solution was our last resort. We have to train her to use her Arts, rather than indulge or imprison her.

She's like Amiya in some ways, and unlike her in others.

Don't keep me in suspense.;...Elaborate.;I don't quite understand.

Then let me finish, please.

They are alike in that they will both fight to the end for other people.

As for how they're different—

You know Amiya has never wanted to make enemies. Even when forced to do so, she fights back her tears, reluctantly destroying her enemies.

But Rosmontis, I could say, Doctor, that Rosmontis...

She's never given up on a mission. Faced with any situation, she handles it appropriate, and wins.

That is our simultaneously reasonable and incomprehensible Annihilation Specialist, Rosmontis.

She is an elite operator for no other reason than she met the standards across the entire battery of tests.

The operators who feared her came to know what she was really like and ultimately put their lives in her hands...

Because she protects them, with all her power.

If Blaze won the respect of our people through leadership of her team, Rosmontis fought for their respect.

She heard their expectations, and exceeded them.

But there are practical considerations to her participation here.

There are other operators with detection Arts similar to Rosmontis's, with different casting conditions.

Rosmontis can do more than just locate, you've seen the way she fights.

Dr. {@nickname}, we allowed Rosmontis to join this op because she is the best operator for the job, and because she believes as much herself.

Her Arts are also enough to help Amiya and I face the leader of the guerrillas...

'Patriot, of Reunion.'

Yelena's...

Dr. Kal'tsit! The abandoned trolley station, behind the fallen restaurant sign, the gate of #4 Secondary School, third floor of the town hall clocktower!

Acknowledged.

Copy! I'll go to the town hall, Dr. Kal'tsit!

Then we'll go to #4 Secondary School, Doctor. Move.

I'll help you command, Dr. Kal'tsit.

Precisely.

Rosmontis, Amiya, and I will deal with the runners. And you...

Dr. {@nickname}, you will command our free units and slow the guerrilla fighters.

Remember, we target only the enemies we can target.

Once the guerrillas regroup, we fall back. We are here to complete our objective, not to entertain some fantastical idea of a direct fight.

This will be a protracted battle. We could suffer casualties, or even total defeat.

If that happens, we could be facing a new dark age for the Infected.

The best possible outcome for us could be that the command squad does not appear.

We head straight for the command tower and the generator area, leaving the Reunion Infected to handle their own problems with the Infected.

But he won't, not this guerrilla commander.

He won't lose control of the battle and watch his team fall apart. It is not faith alone that keeps his people together, he has the strength to live up to his name.

After this battle, if all goes well... we will commit everything to a conflict with their command squad.

We will face down Buldrokkas'tee.