| + | ;「I, Angelise Ikaruga Mitsurugi, wish to here provide an explanation<br />regarding this altercation which occurred at the bathhouse between<br />myself and Squadron Number One Captain Thalia.<br /><br />On the occasion of my daily sorties, my performance has been spectacular,<br />and thinking about it now this was more than enough to make Captain Thalia jealous.<br />However, for my part, I knew nothing of the captain’s envy and unfounded slandering of<br />me, and I had no idea whatsoever about the captain’s mounting day-to-day stress.<br /><br />Even when the captain came to me at the bathhouse my only thought was that<br />she had come to praise my usual work, Further, even when Captain Thalia came at me<br />with a knife, I though that this was a unique manifestation of the captain’s affection and<br />I accepted the challenge without a thought.<br /><br />I knocked away the captain’s knife, and after some bare-handed fighting, we entered into a<br />battle with scrubbing brushes, and I felt that it was actually beating her that would meet her<br />expectations, and so before I knew it, I had won a total victory.<br /><br />As far as this goes, I believe my behavior is as it normally is in my day-to-day life,<br />but I have come to learn through this incident that my being elegant and luxurious<br />causes some people to feel envy.<br /><br />I am guilty of no wrongdoing or misconduct in this incident, and I myself am not to blame<br />in the slightest, so I can improve nothing, but if it may be said that the mere perfection of<br />my existence begat it, then I do offer some apology.」 |