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"Thank you for your kind words, Marie. I do feel happy regardless of having lost. I think letting out all that accumulated power and fighting someone I've always looked up to like my sister felt nice… I guess my father and mother are also really strong, but I never truly saw them as rivals the way I do my big sister. Maybe it's natural for siblings to have these rivalries," Zephyrus said.
"I never had siblings, so I don't understand that…" Marie said. "But master's power is magnificent. So strong… Don't be sad! You're very strong…"
"I understand, I understand," Zephyrus laughed as Marie began grooming his hair with her beak. "Ouch, you're doing this again, huh?"
"I don't know why, but I think it makes you feel better…" she said, unaware that for humans it was a little painful.
