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[You are ushered through an archway covered in flowers of your team color and find yourself in a different, smaller garden- or at least, what will soon be a garden. Plots of freshly turned soil are lined up in two rows and the area is littered with all the tools you could need. The small field is surrounded on three sides by a wooden fence, and past it all that can be seen is a thick white fog.

Along the back fence is a wooden table, covered with paper seed packets. Each packet has the plant name and a price neatly written on the front, along with some...slightly strange descriptions. You can examine them all you like, but you'll find you can't actually pick up the packets...until you pay for them, of course. A small pile of silver coins sits on the table next to the seeds, which you can move and distribute freely.

A voice speaks from the sky as you look around, just as loud and obnoxiously cheerful as before:]

Okay, let's get started already! Today you guys are gonna try to grow the best garden you possibly can! You can handle that, right? Yeah, I know ya can! Seriously, it ain't hard, just buy whatever ya want! Oh, but be sure to take good care of them, and make sure they all grow big and strong. Trust me- you're gonna need 'em!

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This is not gardening.

That's because Yue's going to do something that makes the left half matter...

So let's just hedge our bets and put up a defense.

I do not care what he's doing, it's still not gardening. I wish these bastards would just be straightforward with what they want . . .

[she doesn't want to do this but U G H]

Aww... come on. They're trying to have a little fun, Clover.

I don't care. This is strategy, then? Are we just defending from some sort asinine attack or do we need attack back?

I think we just have to defend.

How boring.

Y-you think so?

I dislike sitting back and defending.

Well... being proactive is good, but being invincible is better. At least, that's how I see it.

. . . being invincible.

Well, like, hypothetically... if your defenses are strong enough to never take damage from your opponent, then it doesn't matter anymore how long it takes you to beat them.

Of course it matters. One cannot simply sit there all day and take their time fending off an enemy.

Mmn...

I guess in the end a balance between attack and defense is best no matter what side of things you're on.

Mm, well. Realistically, such a thing will also take time.

That's true. It's hard to be properly balanced between the two. Thinking about it, even I've got my leanings.

[she shrugs a shoulder]

Such things are better left to strategists. It is what they train for.

I guess... b-but I try and strategize myself, too.

Sometimes, you can't always stick to the original plan.

Mmm, I suppose.

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