"What, am I not gentle and demure?"
"..."
If you'd loosen that Dragon Tooth buried in me right now, I might actually be able to agree with you.
But perhaps even Rafael herself felt that "gentle and virtuous" really didn't suit her, because in the next moment she lightly released Fisher's skin and said,
"So yeah, I've never really believed in fate. That so‑called fate—timing, momentum... Maybe there really is some moment we don't know about where we'll迎来an unavoidable end, but before that, we must have made countless choices ourselves that led the ending to fall on that moment. Maybe I once had the chance to truly become a gentle 'Rafael', but the moment I decided to leave the tribe, decided to be with you, and then decided to part from you for a while, everything that fate had set for me went its separate way from mine..."
Listening to Rafael's words, Fisher also thought of how the Phoenixes interpreted fate, and of the choices they had made.
