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Wait, I wanted to be Kagami Izuna!
Noelle hangs back with Diya as the others argue, trying to process a confusing tangle of feelings about not being the center of Akarsha's attention.
She watches Akarsha's ridiculous gait as she walks, the one that apparently marks her as an American in India.
Question: Do you ever feel like love is a choice?
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Like you could {i}potentially{/i} fall in love with someone?
You're {i}not{/i} in love with them, but if you wanted to feel that way, you {i}could.{/i}
But if you ignore it, it'll pass, eventually.
Isn't that just regular love?
No, I'm not talking about regular love, like what you and Min experience.
There was no preventing that. The two of you were drawn together with the force of a freight train.
But this isn't like that. This is more comparable to someone reaching a fork in a road.
Because I can obviously control my emotions, especially ones that aren't useful to me. I'm not a wild animal.
...Even if you could control your emotions. Why don't you think they're useful?
Because they would derail my entire life.
There's insufficient evidence to suggest the subject in question would reciprocate my feelings, so perhaps this is putting the cart before the horse...
But in the unlikely event that things actually did work out between us, it would be extremely inconvenient for my plans.
What plans?
You know, just the default ones.
Essentially, to secure a respectable job, marry a similarly successful man, and spawn two well-behaved children in the suburbs before I'm thirty.
I'd be throwing away my prospects of leading a normal life just for the pleasure of being tormented by a silly little clown every day.
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Diya gives her an odd look. She looks like she's struggling to piece together a very complicated puzzle.
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What?
Nothing...
If the...person...doesn't fit your goal, shouldn't you update the goal?
I can't. It's the only outcome my parents see as acceptable.
If I don't adhere to it, they'll badger me day and night. They'll never let me hear the end of it.
Don't they already do that anyway?
...Oh...Yes, they do.
You're right, no matter what I do, they'll always find some new issue to latch onto.

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There's insufficient evidence to suggest the subject in question would reciprocate my feelings, so perhaps this is putting the cart before the horse...
There's insufficient evidence to suggest the subject in question would reciprocate my feelings, so perhaps this is putting the cart before the horse...
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Speaker: Noelle
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Source string location
game/4_noelle.rpy:3446
String age
a year ago
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a year ago
Translation file
translations.pot, string 5131