Chesed — Episode 3Location: The Library – Floor of Social SciencesRoland(Servant)This place is filled with the scent of coffee as always.Audio: "ch8_Chesed_ep3_Roland1"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)Welcome~ Today’s blend is Indigo Mountain. Wanna have a try?Audio: "ch8_Chesed_ep3_chesed1"Roland(Servant)Sure!Audio: "ch8_Chesed_ep3_Roland2"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)The tastes of coffee aren’t all the same. It’s determined by a number of factors.Audio: "ch8_Chesed_ep3_chesed2"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)Starting with where it was grown, how long it’s roasted… When you stop extracting the flavor and how finely the coffee beans are ground also play an important part.Audio: "ch8_Chesed_ep3_chesed3"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)The acidity and sweetness depend on the size of the particle.Audio: "ch8_Chesed_ep3_chesed4"Roland(Servant)It’s a pretty delicate drink, huh. I just drank whatever they gave me.Audio: "ch8_Chesed_ep3_Roland3"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)Wouldn’t you say that it resembles the denizens of the City in a way?Audio: "ch8_Chesed_ep3_chesed5"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)A person’s identity and values can vastly differ based on where they were born and raised; whether it was the Backstreets or the Nests, and what district of the Backstreets it was.Audio: "ch8_Chesed_ep3_chesed6"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)Along with how rough their background was as they grew up.Audio: "ch8_Chesed_ep3_chesed7"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)In the streets of music, you may grow into a loser if you can’t strike a single chord.Audio: "ch8_Chesed_ep3_chesed8"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)In the streets of food and flavor, you might end up being an ingredient. It all depends on the rules of the plantation.Audio: "ch8_Chesed_ep3_chesed9"Roland(Servant)That makes sense. …Wait a sec?Audio: "ch8_Chesed_ep3_Roland4"Roland(Servant)So you’re saying each person has a different flavor…?Audio: "ch8_Chesed_ep3_Roland5"Roland(Servant)That’s something a District 23 resident would say… You haven’t been brewing coffee out of the guests, have you?!Audio: "ch8_Chesed_ep3_Roland6"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)Not much of a romanticist, are you~ I’ll take that as a joke.Audio: "ch8_Chesed_ep3_chesed10"Roland(Servant)I was half-joking alright.Audio: "ch8_Chesed_ep3_Roland7"Roland(Servant)Though you never know, anything could happen.Audio: "ch8_Chesed_ep3_Roland8"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)The technique of mixing coffee of different origins into a single cup is called “blending”.Audio: "ch8_Chesed_ep3_chesed11"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)Through blending, even a low-quality coffee can be given a nice flavor.Audio: "ch8_Chesed_ep3_chesed12"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)Sociology is a lot like blending when you look at it.Audio: "ch8_Chesed_ep3_chesed13"Roland(Servant)It’s the study of managing a society where all kinds of people are blended together… I guess that works?Audio: "ch8_Chesed_ep3_Roland9"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)See~? And when you blend coffee, you pick out the beans you want and filter away the unwanted ones.Audio: "ch8_Chesed_ep3_chesed14"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)Unlike coffee beans, though, people have their own desires too; so they try to enter the “blending machine” they want. They’d rather go to a more luxurious world, in other words.Audio: "ch8_Chesed_ep3_chesed15"Roland(Servant)Even though they’re ground into powder all the same.Audio: "ch8_Chesed_ep3_Roland10"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)The City and the Nest keep whispering to the people, all to get the good beans to come over.Audio: "ch8_Chesed_ep3_chesed16"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)They want supplements to delicately complement the grandest and the most unique flavor.Audio: "ch8_Chesed_ep3_chesed17"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)“This is where you can find the true value of life.” They make a parade of Nest dwellers’ prosperity and comfort, right next to the miserable scene of losers who were filtered away.Audio: "ch8_Chesed_ep3_chesed18"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)That’s how everyone is deceived into selling themselves.Audio: "ch8_Chesed_ep3_chesed19"Roland(Servant)Even if it’s a facade, it’s true that life in the Nest is miles better than life in the Backstreets.Audio: "ch8_Chesed_ep3_Roland11"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)Is it really? The Wings are constantly grinding people up, almost akin to coffee beans in a coffee factory, no?Audio: "ch8_Chesed_ep3_chesed20"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)Every Wing paints its Nest as the most comforting place in the world in an attempt to recruit feathers for itself.Audio: "ch8_Chesed_ep3_chesed21"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)A different set of rules are enforced in every Nest, and the Backstreets distort according to those policies. Everyone is soaked in the greatest and the sweetest lie.Audio: "ch8_Chesed_ep3_chesed22"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)They convince themselves that what they’re doing is for the best.Audio: "ch8_Chesed_ep3_chesed23"Roland(Servant)Convince themselves? There’s nothing to convince, it is for the best.Audio: "ch8_Chesed_ep3_Roland12"Roland(Servant)There’s literally no better option than to leave the Backstreets, join a Wing, and spend a stable life in the Nest.Audio: "ch8_Chesed_ep3_Roland13"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)Then who gets to decide how to “blend” people? No, is it even necessary in the first place?Audio: "ch8_Chesed_ep3_chesed24"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)Do we really need to pick out certain people? Can’t we just live as we are, as our own flavors?Audio: "ch8_Chesed_ep3_chesed25"Roland(Servant)You’re talking like it’s so simple. Questions like that won’t get you to anything other than more questions.Audio: "ch8_Chesed_ep3_Roland14"Chesed(Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences)Is that so~?Audio: "ch8_Chesed_ep3_chesed26"Roland(Servant)It is so. Thanks for the coffee. I’ll be going now.Audio: "ch8_Chesed_ep3_Roland15"
