Interlude: Pelleas versus the Japanese Script
Pelleas had spent all night in the library looking up ways to defeat the Blood Pact that did not involve a blade in the gut. Call him spoiled, but he did that in the last play through and it wasn't any fun.
In his scanning, however, he found something way better than the Blood Pact information. Way better. Holding the stack of papers to his chest covetously, he ran to find Micaiah.
"I FOUND THE EXTENDED JAPANESE SCRIPT!" he cried in joy, waving the papers like a flag.
Micaiah, Sothe and Tauroneo were together and only Sothe didn't look proud. "That's wonderful, Your Majesty!" Micaiah said, voice proud.
"Who cares?" Sothe said, voice grumpy.
Pelleas could not stop smiling. "In the original script, it explains why I signed the Blood Pact."
His captive audience gasped collectively. "You mean you actually read it before signing it?" Tauroneo asked, hope in his eyes.
"I did!" Pelleas was beaming with pride. "It was a loan! Begnion gave me a reconstruction loan and I was on the verge of paying it all off!"
Micaiah and Tauroneo applauded. Sothe looked disappointed. "So you read and signed a loan for a good reason and were good enough at finances that if it had actually been a loan it'd be paid off already," Sothe recounted. "I can't believe it but it means I kind of have to respect you a little bit. Just a little, though."
One detail ruined it, but Pelleas certainly wasn't going to point it out.
Unfortunately for him, Micaiah can read minds. "He still signed it in blood," she pointed out to her brother-boyfriend.
Sothe snickered as Pelleas pouted.