Kagero & Niles C-S supports

C-support
[Niles alone]
Niles: [smirk] Come out, come out, wherever you are~…
Niles: Come on now, don’t be shy.
Niles: I’ll be nice to you.
[Kagero appears]
Kagero: [eyes closed] …Don’t you ever shut your mouth?
Niles: If someone asks me very nicely.
Kagero: [frown] Please be quiet.
Niles: Are you sure you don’t want me to spill some juicy state secrets for you?
Niles: That IS why you’ve been following me, isn’t it?
Kagero: I’d heard rumours about you. I wished to verify them.
Niles: [smirk] Oh, really? And what rumours would those be?
Niles: I assure you, they’re all true.
Kagero: [eyes closed] That you’re a man of uncommon loyalty.
Niles: [sweat] I- what?
Kagero: I heard that Prince Leo’s first retainer was a man of uncommon loyalty among Nohrians and Hoshidans alike.
Niles: [sweat] That’s- certainly not the usual type of rumour-
Niles: Who told you that?
Kagero: [smirk] Various sources.
Kagero: I’ll let you know when I reach my conclusions.
Niles: [eyes closed] I thought all you ninja were sticks in the mud, but you’re a fun one.
[Kagero vanishes]
Niles: We should do this again some-
Niles: [eyes open, frown] How rude.

B-support
[Niles is alone]
Niles: [smirk] Back for more, hmm?
Niles: I thought I’d return the favour and learn a bit about you, Kagero.
Niles: A ninja’s ninja, trained from infancy to protect your liege.
Niles: Tell me, does it really count as loyalty when it’s beaten into you?
[Kagero appears]
Kagero: [frown] …Excuse me?
Niles: I’m sure some of the rumours about Hoshidan training are exaggerated, but even so…
Niles: Is it truly loyalty when the alternative is exile or death?
Kagero: [frown] Serving Lord Ryoma is an honour.
Niles: An honour you never chose.
Niles: I’m sure a resourceful woman like you knows all about my sorry tale.
Niles: I chose to follow Lord Leo. I swore my life to him.
Kagero: [angry] Don’t use your misfortune to question my loyalty.
Niles: [smirk] You were brainwashed from birth to live and die at the whims of some decrepit shogun, and you’re calling me unfortunate?
Kagero: How dare you?!
Niles: [smile] Heh. Now you’re getting fired up.
Kagero: [eyes closed] How could someone like you understand devotion?
Niles: Funny. I was just thinking the same thing.

A-support
Niles: So, this is your legendary artwork, hmm?
Niles: [smirk] Any raunchy portraits of your liege?
Kagero: Is that a Nohrian custom?
Niles: No. Sadly.
Niles: [smirk] Say, is it true that all you ninja b-
Niles: [injured] Wh-what the hell is this?!
Kagero: [frown] …
Niles: I heard your artwork was terrifying, but this is-
Niles: What am I even looking at?
Kagero: [frown] Igasato. The village where I grew up.
Niles: [injured] …
Kagero: [injured] I considered what you said. And… you may have had a point.
Kagero: Was that much harsh training truly necessary to secure a loyal retainer?
Kagero: [eyes closed, injured] …Could I truly call myself loyal, when that loyalty came as naturally as breathing?
Niles: And?
Kagero: I still don’t know. I realise now that I may never know.
Kagero: [frown] My loyalty has never been truly tested. Nothing has ever competed with duty in my heart.
Niles: [smirk] Ha. That makes two of us.
Niles: [eyes closed, injured] I owe Lord Leo my life. There’s nothing else for me.
Niles: My life before him was a wretched existence, not worth living. My loyalty means nothing.
Kagero: [smirk] I knew it.
Niles: What?
Kagero: You went through this whole ordeal of questioning my loyalty, forcing me to rethink my duty…
Kagero: All of that to tear yourself down.
Niles: What can I say? I’m a selfish man.
Kagero: [smirk] And a loyal one.
Niles: [eyes closed, smirk] Hmph.

S-support
Kagero: [frown] …
Kagero: …
Kagero: [smirk] Are you even trying?
[Niles appears]
Niles: Trying to get directly overhead, perhaps.
Kagero: What do you think?
Niles: Disturbing as ever. Is it just me, or has your art grown even more tumultuous lately?
Kagero: [frown] I fear it has.
Niles: Any reason behind it? Homesick for the green grass of home?
Kagero: You’re dancing around this less eloquently than you think.
Niles: [injured] …
Kagero: [eyes closed, frown] The theme is loyalty.
Niles: And the paper looks as though it’s being torn in two. I see.
Kagero: What we have between us cannot last.
Niles: Mm. I’m not abandoning Leo, and you’re still glued to Ryoma’s side.
Kagero: [smile] So this is what a test of loyalty feels like.
Kagero: It’s slower than I imagined, though no less agonising.
Niles: [smirk] We could always distract ourselves again. I never expected those scarves you ninja wear could be so multi-purpose.
Kagero: [smile] You’re right once again.
Niles: …Wait, what?
Kagero: The answer is pre-determined.
Kagero: When the war ends, we’ll part ways. This… affair between us may be rekindled at points after that, but not like this.
Niles: [smirk] Such a shame. I do so like happy endings.
Kagero: [smirk] Then perhaps we should enjoy what time we have.
Niles: I love it when we agree on things.