Dedue & Gilbert C / houses.fedatamine.com

Gilbert enters the scene

Dedue enters the scene

Gilbert

Ah, hello. Dedue, yes?

Dedue

Finished praying?

Gilbert

I am, yes.

Gilbert

You have grown much since I saw you last. You are a man now.

Dedue

You barely know me.

Gilbert

True. I suppose we did only meet a handful of times.

Dedue

As haggard as you look now, you were even worse when I last saw you in the capital.

Gilbert

Haggard, eh? True enough.

Dedue

Still weighed down by the same regret, I see.

Gilbert

I was unable to protect the king. That is the ultimate failure. One I must atone for.

Dedue

If you have the spare time to beg forgiveness, then pick up a lance and train.

Gilbert

That would do nothing to atone for the dead.

Dedue

Your prayers are mere self-indulgence.

Gilbert

You do not understand.

Dedue

No, I do not.

Dedue

Faerghus needed you. His Highness needed you.

Gilbert

There was no other choice but for me to leave.

Gilbert

What would you have done if you were in my place? If His Highness had died due to your failures?

Dedue

If he commanded me to live, then I would live. Otherwise, I would die with him.

Dedue

I have nothing left to lose other than His Highness.

Dedue

Home, family—all but that man, I have already lost.

Gilbert
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Dedue

You were a knight in service to the king for decades.

Dedue

Not only did you excel in bravery, wisdom, and tactics, but in matters of character you were an ideal knight. Utterly above reproach.

Dedue

That is what His Highness has always said.

Dedue

I have only come this far by modeling my conduct after his stories of you.

Dedue

But now...

Gilbert

Forget those words spoken by His Highness. I am no different a man than I was before...

Gilbert

Beaten down by sin. Alone and weak. I am lost and irredeemable.