“That does sound an incredible idea.” I agreed. “But even if it could work, there seems to be a ton of problems with it. Surely the scale of the Alchemy would just be too much.” I pondered how much I would be able to dismantle if it was me using my aether, and cluded that it would be a det amount of trash, but hardly enough to make a w business out of it.

  “Of course, nothing of value ever es easily.” Ixitt shed his tail happily. “There are issues with identification of material, the sheer scale of power required and many other factors.” He Master Bjarki, who was half-listening while he ied the remaining Twin Fang, thinking of his craft. “If Alchemy was so all-powerful, then we would have no need for Dwarven iy. Although…” he whispered mock-spiratorially. “…the Dwarves do use a little Alchemy on the more stubborn ores, or to ease troublesome teical deficits.”

  “I see. So do you have any actual solutions?” I asked.

  “A few, mortal engineering and your human sces are all about experimentation, are they not? I shall endeavour to make a w prototype on a smaller scale. To do that, I will require your assistahough.” Ixitt smirked. “After all, your ability to see to the heart of things solves gest problem.”

  We talked a little more about it, and by the end I was truly exhausted by Ixitt’s enthusiasm, but it was certainly promising. As we were finishing up, he dropped another bombshell. “Oh, I nearly fot to mention, we have created a few oys for your weaselkin.” He gestured, and several of his ratkin brought out yet another couple of iions. As the bundles were uned, I looked at the first. It was a gun, definitely, but it had a very long barrel, as well as some sort of telescopic sight.

  “Lenses are a passion of mine, and we used them to study the spores, did we not?” Ixitt chuckled. “Well, some of your soldier allies in the mortal world were good enough to talk to me about sniper rifles. This is my approximation.” He grinned. “The performance is g, from what I researched on Wikipedia and other sites. Although the bullets are quite simply spectacur.” He grihe sed cloth opeo reveal a number of different rounds. There were heavy metal shells, shells taining a small amount of bluesteel, shimmering with earth elemental energies, even bullets that looked like they had been made from red and e Etherites.

  “Impressive.” I agreed. The calibre of the bullets was rge, so if they could be ejected with any force, they would cause immense damage. “Though how do the bullets unch? Our ability to make gunpowder is limited here, isn’t it?”

  “Currently we are using wind element, tained in bluesteel here and here.” He poio various locations. “It works acceptably well, though it atch the range and power of explosive powders yet. If we had a soure element was well, then we could use a modified twi system, which I do believe could even exceed the potential of your mortal rifles.” His grin turned wild. “I also have a few other ideas that be tested with enough fire element. So, to that end, if I could ask…” he brought over a rge bluesteel battery, obviously based on some of my earlier designs. “The kobolds are w hard, and output is up signifitly. Hearing you have so many mines, and how you do not oppress them, entire s have migrated here. Even those who dwell on the fringes of the Fae nds.”

  Fine, I get it. With a plicated expression on my face, I elled fme energies into the barrel, causing it to glow a brilliant yellow. Shaeu added her powers too, as did Eri and Shiro, surprisingly, and soon the rge, barrel-sized battery was charged.

  “Excellent! With this we make progress. I also have an idea for a rotary anti-infantry design, and also field artillery, but wind element alone is not effit enough. Oh, if only we had some lightning element… well, it is not as though I ask the noble Queen of all the Seelie to charge my battery. I hardly eve su august personage…” as he rolled the barrel away, I noticed Ixitt was level fifteen now, having obviously takeime to maximise what bes he could get from the Throne.

  “At least… he’s a hard worker, ahusiastic?” Eri said at st, and Master Bjarki let out a long chuckle.

  “Aye, that’n he be.” The dwarf looked up at us. “Ever si’day yer brother came lookin’ for ye, princess, Ixitt, he be overjoyed t’be disc new knowledge and ideas, ye ken? Well, I rejoice tae see it. I even be a mite jealous, ye ken? Now, I best be getting’ back tae the fe. I have work tae do.” With those words Bjarki left, along with most of the others around us.

  “Bringing guns to the fantasy world, Aki? Cssic stuff.” Shiro observed.

  “Well, in a word where Shaeu’s brother and other top archers shoot kilometres, and tough oppos easily shrug off rifle-fire, guns aren’t going to be game-ging.” I realised. “Even so, against fortresses, or in skirmishes, they would give us quite the advantage. Imagine our weaselkin being able to snipe most of the enemy forces before they ever got into battle…” I shrugged. “More ons aer optioainly won’t hurt.”

  “Yeah, makes sense. So… Aki, why’s that girl with the slightly green skin giving you the puppy-dog eyes? She’s a Dryad, right? It’s pretty cool, but for some reason, this princess feels her heart ag a bit. So, let me guess, she’s another one you saved?”

  I immediately went to deny it, before realising I couldn’t, irely, anyway. “Not alone. Grulgor, Ixitt, Hyath and Shaeu all helped. It was quite the wild ride. Literally.”

  “Oh?” Shiro raised an eyebrow, curious. “I want to know about that, sounds fun. But I was right, another damsel in distress rescued by you, Aki. You do have a hero plex, don’t you? I wasn’t sure you had the temperament for it, not like Hayato, but I guess for ohis princess was mistaken. he date, it doesn’t happen often!”

  “So, what I do for you, Asha?” I asked her, and she looked at me, her yellow eyes appraising me.

  “I was curious. Ever since you returned, I feel a riergy within you. It reminds me of father, a little.” She reached out gingerly, her pale hand stopping just before me as she flinched uhe weight of stares from my female pany. “I am sorry if I overstepped my bounds. But to my Tree… suergy would be most restorative.” She whispered a few words, barely audible. “… to me as well.”

  Damn my sensitive ears. Still, strengthening the Rhyming Trees is a good idea. Besides, I have no idea how to use wood element. “Well, I received it in trade with a kami. I don’t really know what I’m doing, but if you think it would help…” we followed her to the tree. Up-close, the t tree was an impressive sight, especially as it was ned with polished wooden steps, and in the rested a rather picturesque café, the deg magnifit views over my Territory and the Boundary Tokyo proper.

  “What’s this?” Shiro asked, puzzled.

  “A café.” Shaeu grinned. “It is quite-quite pleasant sitting up there and watg the wo by, drink in hand. Sihere is no-no wind here, it is possible to enjoy open-air drinking at such a height.”

  Shiro frowned. “Well, normally the thought of all those steps would be enough to make me pass out, but I have been a bit stronger retly. I do want to see as well… Aki, be a darling and carry me up there ter, okay?”

  “No way! If anyone needs carrying it’s me!” Eri protested.

  “I don’t see why. Ys work here, don’t they?” Shiro bantered back.

  “Not well! I insist on a princess carry too!”

  As they argued between themselves, Shaeu ughing at their banter, Hyath giggled.

  “The new mistress seems tooo get on well with mistress Eri.” She observed.

  “Yeah. Shiro’s a bit cold and be unsociable, but when she opens up a bit, she’s quite pyful. Besides, I see she’s making the effort to fit in.” I roud of her, arrogant though that was. Shiro o step outside her fort zoo get down from the tower she was imprisoned in, a lonely princess, and i and ugh with others. “Anyway, enough about that. Asha, what do you wao do?”

  “Pardon my interruption.” Asha apologised politely, and while I wasn’t sure if Asha really was a daughter of Orion, the King of the Seelie Court, or it was just an allegory, in some ways she could be half-sidered a princess as well. Looks like I’m just surrounded with them at the moment…

  “If you could nourish the tree with your wood element, and your earth element too.” Asha reached out, her own hand toug the trunk. Almost all the scars left from removing the spores and fungal growth had healed, and the bare branches were covered in brilliant green leaves. My Eye fshed as I watched the flow of earth ehe tree, as well as a tiny trickle of nature element. It seems Asha use it, a little, but it’s not even enough to give her the skill, I’d say…

  Further observation showed me that Asha also had a small amount of water element too, though again the amount was tiny, her dominant aspect beih. As the energy flowed within the massive tree it was absorbed, and the tree seemed pleased, the branches swaying a little, as if a gentle breeze was blowing. Okay, I think I get it…

  Pg my hands orunk, I let my earth elemental energy flow from my right hand, while my left, I tried to pull out my wood element. It was hard, as what even was wood element? It was clearly a mixture of water ah elements, but how one would get wood from that… stifically, it seems impossible. Still, my sis is always mentioning Naruto, well, that’s one of the anime we watched together as a kid. The first Hokage, he was wood element, right? Image seemed to be the key, so I imagined some of the feats he could perform.

  “Yes, that is perfect.” Asha smiled gently, looking rather regal. “Allow your strength to bless the Tree, bless me. After all, my Tree would have perished, were it not for your efforts.” I wasn’t really listening to her, but instead trating on guiding the flows. Where my energy spilled, I could see the chakra work withiree, so uhat of a Fae or a huma somehow also irely dissimir, bze brilliantly, strengthened. Still, my ability to use wood element was feeble, so after a few minutes I ent, slumped to the ground, panting heavily.

  “Looks like you ran a marathon, Aki.” Shiro observed.

  “No, if he did that he wouldn’t even be sweating.” Eri shook her head. “This must have been tough. Though he probably loves it, he’s always training nowadays.” Eri said, looking at me fondly.

  Oh, you don’t know the half of it! Your turn is ing shortly Eri, just wait and see. As I grihe tree suddenly cracked, bark splintering. I looked up in arm, but on seeing Asha looking uned, merely holding out one of the gss goblets we used for treats in the café above, I rexed.

  “I expected this would happen.” She said, holding the goblet to the small fissure. A thick, red liquid seeped out, filling the gss before the wound in the bark closed. Taking a sip, Asha grinned. “Magnifit. It has been louries siasted this.” She supped at around half the liquid, before passing the gss to me.

  Dryad Blood – This rich elemental sap tains stroh and wood elemental energy, refined by a powerful Fae tree. Drinking it may have bes to the ability to manipute suergies.

  “I guess…” taking it, I looked at it gingerly, before taking a sip. I then gasped in shock at the rich, fruity yet earthy sweetness. I hate the name, but this is good. I could feel it releasing energy as it permeated my chakras and capilries. Taking another sip, I smiled happily.

  “ I have some?” Eri asked, curious, only for Asha to shake her head.

  “I fear I ot allow that. Only the one I have shared my…” her pale, green-tinted skin flushed. “… it would not be proper, I am afraid.”

  In that case… I draihe goblet, before handing it back. “Thanks. It was good. I feel my tiredness diminishing a bit. Is there anything else?”

  Asha shook her head. “I would only ask that you feed the Tree when you are able. I would have it grow tall and strong, the equal to any in the Seelie Court.”

  “Works for me.” I hardly even imagihe bounty we’d have were the Tree to reach Rank 6. Though I expect that’s probably just a pipedream…

  As Asha departed, Eri watg her go a touch sourly, Shiro with a plicated gleam in her eyes, I dusted myself off. “All right then. While we wait for your brother to get back to us, we might as well get started with the training regimen.”

  “Training?” Eri asked. “I thought so. It usually is.”

  ”Well, do you object tth? You were menting quite-quite bitterly mere moments ago that Aiko might overtake you.” Shaeu pointed out, and Eri shook her head, wing at the effort.

  “No way. I’m always ready to do what’s needed!” Eri disagreed. “It’s just so typically Akio, I had to ent.”

  “Fine. Well, for me, I’ll be p all my light and darkness element into the mirror, and trying to ge your elements into mine. Same as Ren-san’s programme.” I grinned. “I’d best master it, or he’ll get a big head.” I thought of Ren-san noticeably more fondly now, him having gone from a whiny brat in my mind, to someone who could act wheuation was really serious. “Shaeu, you’ll be helping Eri with your Chirurgery, as well as… ugh, sorry Eri, I wanted you to Rank up Ether Healing. It hurts like hell taking the shortcut, and the thought of causing you such pain…”

  “I get it. We did the same in Kyoto. Pain… I don’t like it, nobody does. But it’s tempetting my body w again is forever. So I’ll do it, of course. I lenty of praise, hugs and kisses ter though.”

  “Not a problem. Hyath, you tone down your spores to make then slow-spreading and less dangerous?” I asked, and she nodded.

  “As for you, Shiro…” at that she looked nervous, yet eager. On seeing my expression, she blushed.

  “What? Aki, surely you aren’t thinking that I’m happy just because you are ing up with a pn for me are… ugh, no, I keep promising not to be tsundere. Damn, annoyingly enough I am happy. Though I daresay I like pain evehan Eri here. But I’ve plenty of experience, so…”

  “Well, Tan, maybe you help with that? Since we don’t have the twins here right now?” I asked. “Speaking of, why is your level so low, Shiro? It sounds like you’ve been running a det Territory, so shouldn’t you be stronger?”

  “I shall ahat.” Her eye gleamed red. “Those that have been blessed by the favours of the Divine, shards of trated, processed adherehey do indeed grow stronger by drawing irength around them. The prioo, she is no exception. However, I gain little from this. Though my strength is quite limited here, rgely sealed away, my true strength far exceeds what scraps I gain here. No, what I sought was the Divine Favours, for they ourish me.” She paused, embarrassed. “I fess, I am limited in the number and strength of them I hold, my thirst is perhaps deeper than I trol, yet those I had little use for, I inteo break down, and use some of the residue tthen her. I would have kept my promise.” She insisted. “You would have lived a long, and normal life, happy in the domain of our Pantheon, upon this new world, Shiro.” With that her eye turned dark again.

  “Thanks, Tan.” Shiro whispered, touched.

  Despite the deal they had being monstrously one-sided, I do still get the impression Tan does do her best for Shiro, in her own way. And it’s true, Shiro might not have survived until now as a ventional didate. Although… Shiro being Shiro, there was a ce she would have surprised everyone, found a way to grow strong enough to overe her feeble body, and dominated Japan. If only to lord it over me and the gang…

  “He’s thinking something rude about me now, isn’t he? I tell.” Shiro exged a ugh with Eri and Shaeu, who agreed, while Hyath merely nodded.

  “Well, enough of that. It was plimentary, I promise.” I chuckled. “Well, first up, I o assess my own growth, and then we’ll get crag. But Shiro… I think a lot of your issues be solved with more levels, so after this, be prepared for some hellish grinding. Down by the coast, I expect we’ll find plenty of moo kill.” Seas were always good grinding spots in games and stories, and the creatures there are less likely to be se races, so better for our sces too…

  “Well, I do enjoy maxing out characters. It hits different when it’s me being talked about though. All right, Aki. Make me feel bad with your awesome stats then. Just like before.” Once more everyone echoed agreement with Shiro, looking eager.

  Well, who resist four beauties asking them like that? Okay, here we go…

  Oshiro Moonstone Akio [Chosen of Ortlinde, Valkyrie of He Who Sacrifibsp;To Trap The Wolf, Tyr, Foreteller of Disaster Uhe Moon, Champion of the Divisukuyomi’s Blessed]

  I stifled a groan. “Well damn, that’s a mouthful and a half now.” I said.

  “Champion of the Diviner, huh?” Eri observed sourly, a knowing gleam in her eyes. “Looks like we were right again. I try not to let it bother me, but it’s hard, you know?”

  “Well, she will make a powerful ally, I do believe.” Shaeu disagreed, amber eyes bright with excitement. “Her political influence is great-great withiemples and shrines, if naught else.”

  “Look, there’s nothing going on, we’ve beehis. Well, not nothing, we have to save her, but…”

  “Time to shut up, Aki.” Shiro said, unsympathetic. “Let your wives argue about your many iies here. I dare say there’ll be punishment ter. I know I’m itg to give you a sp, and I barely know what’s going on.”

  “I knew I could get on with you.” Eri decred happily. “You actually get why I’m upset. Shaeu and Hyath don’t uand it at all! Just because I uand you might have to have more women, doesn’t mean you should pick up everyone you see! It’s only been a few weeks since we had our heart to heart at my birthday, and we already have Hinata, Motoko, Natsumi and now this Matsumuro-san!”

  “What about me?” Shiro asked, curious at being excluded.

  “Well, your situation is different. You’re like Shaeu and Hyath. I… I ’t bring myself to be mad about that.” She sighed. “Akio needs you. You’re the part of his life I had no business with. Imagine if you ended up fighting. It’d crush him. Far better for him t you in now. That way, his heart won’t break. Even if I have to suffer a bit, I’d rather that, than see Akio colpse.”

  “Eri…” I whispered, touched.

  Shiro was too. She ughed bitterly. “It almost came to that. Though no matter what Tan thinks, I don’t believe we’d have beaten Aki. He’s been steadily building up, p up, some real pro-gamer stuff, han I’d expect from a gamer, someone who helps me build games. And if Tan was forced to leave me, yeah, I’d have died, I’m sure. My health was going downhill steadily over time. Sooner or ter I’d have passed out and never woken up again. So, while some of the fallout makes me sad, I agree. It’s better this way.” Her one-eyed gaze took in Eri and the girls. “I’m like everyone else. I dreamed of love, oo-one, normal. I get it. But ohing I’m not, never have been, is normal. So if this is what I’ve got, I’m damn well going to make the most of it, enjoy it. I want a world that’s kind to me, and if I’m looking for kindness, well, Aki has everyone else beat, right? Just… try not to be too kind to every damn girl out there. You’re only one man, you ’t split yourself so thinly.” She paused then after her long speech, flushed. “Oh, well, I guess at least I’ll get a ugh introdug you all to Yasu. I want to see him cry, blubber like a little baby!” her grin was sadistic.

  “Alig on Yasu, as usual. Well, you used to bully me a lot too.” I sighed.

  “That was just affe, I promise.” Shiro winked. “I guess it’s a lot like aary schoolboy pig on the girl he’s crushing on. Kid’s stuff.”

  “So, that means you like this Yasu too?” Eri said slyly, and Shiro protested, spluttering.

  “Ugh, no way. I wouldn’t date Yasu if he was the st guy oh. So creepy! Eri, I just said I thought you could be o me! And now this? My bullying of Yasu is all he deserves, nothing more!”

  “All right, all right.” I cpped my hands, snapping them out of their banter. “I’ll say it again, I don’t have such a retionship with Tsukiko-san. We all know where I stand. We’ll save her, she deserves it. Now we get bay stats? I want to get training!”

  “Sure, I’ll let it slide for now.” Eri sighed. “But this talk isn’t over!”

  Seriously, who decides oitles? Champion of the Diviner indeed. I was tempted to lie, but… the girls deserve better. Holy, I don’t know Tsukiko-san well enough to sider her in that light. Sure, she’s geous, and has such a bitter past I’d love to show her life be fun, the many good things out there, but… that’s for ter. After we save her. For now…

  “Okay, this is such bullshit, Aki.” Shiro pined. “I remember when you told me your stats just after you defeated me. Why are they so much higher now, and why do you have so many skills with awesome names? I call hag!” she paused. “Though actually, a lot of those names are a bit i, right? The devil sealed in my arm shall be unleashed and all that crap! Maybe it’s best I don’t have those. Fmes of Thirst and Famine is bad enough…”

  “Hey, when did I defeat you? We didn’t really even fight…” I began, only for Shiro to snort, flourishing her e ring at me.

  “You made me submit to yagement, so you won. Anyway, don’t you girls think this is unfair?”

  “A little.” Eri pouted. “But sidering I wasn’t even chosen by any God, I think I be happy with how far I’ve e.”

  “Besides.” Shaeu interrupted, cheerful. “A male should indeed be powerful, should he wish-wish to proted y cim to as many excellent females such as us. Were he a weakling, it would not-not do at all. Besides…” her grin turned sly. “Eri and I have csses that make it easier to learn what Akio already has. So we shall only be twofold from his deserved growth.”

  “Akio has fooought many hard battles, ooon the edges of life ah. If he does not grow stronger from that, the wooorld is unfair.” Hyath supported me.

  “A css? Sharing growth?” Shiro looked at me then. “No fair. I want, I want! I may be a newer, but I demand equality, lest the harem shatter into war!”

  “Well, you earn it through your devotion. Though I do not-not believe without your body to Akio will it happen. You need-o feel his love to wish to share everything, body, heart and soul.” Shaeu admonished her.

  “Well… I have no ao that.” she shifted, her one good arm across her chest. “It’s not like I’m unwilling, but…”

  “I get it. You want to be perfect for our first time. So, this is why we are going to gh some training from hell!” I decred. “Anyway, I have a ton of skills at Rank 5. It seems noticeably easier to get to the first bottleneck at Rank 5, than to break through to Rank 6 or 7. I think that o be my focus. versely…” I grinned. “The aim is to get as many of your skills to Rank 5 as possible. Especially Ether Healing. Hyath, you should learn it too. I don’t want to see more injuries like Eri and Shiro have, if we avoid them.”

  She nodded her agreement, totally unafraid of the pain.

  “Hey, Tan, I’m curious.” Shiro said suddenly, drawing our attention. “Having heard how Aki started with basic human stats and even fed his chakra work from scratch, albeit with advice from others, and all he had raisal cheats… how did he get this strong? It seems… well, it seems impossible, right? Aki, no offense, but you were hardly an athletic guy. I’ve seen you get exhausted running for a train…”

  “True.” Eri smiled. “Aiko got all the sp talent in the family.”

  Tan spoke up. “I have merely jecture. Bear in mind, I am not part of the World Tree pantheon, so I have limited insight.” She stared at me using Shiro’s body, her gaze thirsty. “However, the delightful smell of the forbidden fruit of the World Tree made me so very thirsty.” She reached up and wiped away a morsel of drool from her mouth, and I could tell Shiro inside was embarrassed. “My specution is thus. I did indeed wonder why the Divine Favour of Tyr is not ied within you, mate of the princess.” She sighed. “If you had access to that, I daresay all your earlier trials would have been far easier.”

  “I would be dead-dead though.” Shaeu sighed. “If Akio was not-not weak, barely able to defeat me, he would have wiped me and mine away without a trace, I am quite certain.”

  “Those who have great power often win worlds. Sadly, those of the Orue Throne have the greatest Divine Favenerally. Though on rare occasion others triumph.” Tan tinued. “I do so hope I e some soon.” She licked her lips again, before at out gazes, and Shiro’s silent urging, she tinued. “All those with Divine Favours grow stronger, but there are those Favours specialising in growing stronger. Usually, those who wield such are defeated quickly, swallowed up by those with might to spare. Rarely, just rarely though…” her grin broadened. “… those with the power to groidly outpace those around them who were made strong, and triumph. I suspect your seeds are actually to help you grow. Perhaps these informatios, as the princess calls them, are merely a side effect?”

  “Makes sense, but wouldn’t it be o have the power of Tyr too, since I clearly have it, just uo use or be from it?” I sighed. “The only thing I see is, either Ortlinde couldn’t… or no… wouldn’t…” I think that’s it. What were her exact words?

  If you do not succeed in this manner, your performance will suffer in future. It is much better to allow your own talents to blossom rather than making irreversible ges to your subtle bodies.

  “Talents huh? Blossoming? Like pnts… seeds.” I suddenly had an idea. “I think that Tan is right. It isn’t an informatio, it’s a growth cheat. I think maybe the weaker, the more pin the foundations, the more it tailors the growth to me. Put simply, I was chosen because I was weak and had few talents. Ouch, kind of hurts when you look at it that way…” my grin was mog. “… so if she forcibly opened my chakra work, or let Tyr’s Divine Favour do it, I wouldn’t be surprised if that locked my growth paths. Damn, no wonder I struggled at first, until I met you, Shaeu.”

  “Me?” she asked, and I nodded. “That was the miracle. Without it… well, I might have grown stronger, possibly even opening the ability of Tyr to use, had I survived. But you knew so much about chakra works pared to me, and elemental abilities too.” Everyone was watg me, curious, as I expounded on what I had surmised.

  “I shouldn’t have survived you drilling me a lunar chakra. I’m not a Fae, it shouldn’t have worked. I was weak and fragile as hell then too. Likewise, all the trasting and g elements I’ve taken in… you said it yourself, these elements take years to learn, but we do it quickly.”

  “Well, that is because we mix-mix mortal knowledge and Fae wisdom…” she argued.

  “I agree. That’s surely a big factor. And I’m equally sure your bond with me, my css, Fae Bonded, at the time, was a factor too. But if my cheat is a growth one, able to adapt… then that expins a lot.”

  “So if you want us to be strong, safe…” Eri mused. “That expins why your skills seem able to help us grow as well. Lovers’ Link is an example.” She realised. “Yrowth is to help everyone grow!”

  “Fasating.” Tan agreed. “It is specution, and may not bear fruit iy, but I do believe there is certainly some truth to this.” She sighed. “As, I missed out on such a bountiful meal. Perhaps… perhaps others are out there.”

  From my vision I remember the other Valkyries talking about more. Even so, I’ll ell Tan that!

  “Great. Well, it’s time.” I cpped my hands again. “This has been iing, perhaps even useful, specution, but we o get crag. It’s power-levelling time!” We don’t have long, if Tsukiko-san is right. We o do everything in our power to be ready, so that there are no more tears, no more casualties…

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