Chesed Episode Ⅲ
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The following is the transcript for Chesed Episode Ⅲ, the third episode of the Patron Librarians' Stories for the 
Floor of Social Sciences.
Unlock condition
This episode is unlocked by obtaining the 
Book of Nemo, Book of Martina, and Book of Bada.
Transcript
Location: The Library - Floor of Social Sciences
Servant Roland
This place is filled with the scent of coffee as always.
Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences Chesed
Welcome~ Today’s blend is Indigo Mountain. Wanna have a try?
Servant Roland
Sure!
Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences Chesed
The tastes of coffee aren’t all the same. It’s determined by a number of factors.
Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences Chesed
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.
Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences Chesed
The acidity and sweetness depend on the size of the particle.
Servant Roland
It’s a pretty delicate drink, huh. I just drank whatever they gave me.
Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences Chesed
Wouldn’t you say that it resembles the denizens of the City in a way?
Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences Chesed
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.
Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences Chesed
Along with how rough their background was as they grew up.
Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences Chesed
In the streets of music, you may grow into a loser if you can’t strike a single chord.
Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences Chesed
In the streets of food and flavor, you might end up being an ingredient. It all depends on the rules of the plantation.
Servant Roland
That makes sense. …Wait a sec?
Servant Roland
So you’re saying each person has a different flavor…?
Servant Roland
That’s something a District 23 resident would say… You haven’t been brewing coffee out of the guests, have you?!
Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences Chesed
Not much of a romanticist, are you~ I’ll take that as a joke.
Servant Roland
I was half-joking alright.
Servant Roland
Though you never know, anything could happen.
Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences Chesed
The technique of mixing coffee of different origins into a single cup is called “blending”.
Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences Chesed
Through blending, even a low-quality coffee can be given a nice flavor.
Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences Chesed
Sociology is a lot like blending when you look at it.
Servant Roland
It’s the study of managing a society where all kinds of people are blended together… I guess that works?
Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences Chesed
See~? And when you blend coffee, you pick out the beans you want and filter away the unwanted ones.
Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences Chesed
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.
Servant Roland
Even though they’re ground into powder all the same.
Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences Chesed
The City and the Nest keep whispering to the people, all to get the good beans to come over.
Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences Chesed
They want supplements to delicately complement the grandest and the most unique flavor.
Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences Chesed
“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.
Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences Chesed
That’s how everyone is deceived into selling themselves.
Servant Roland
Even if it’s a facade, it’s true that life in the Nest is miles better than life in the Backstreets.
Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences Chesed
Is it really? The Wings are constantly grinding people up, almost akin to coffee beans in a coffee factory, no?
Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences Chesed
Every Wing paints its Nest as the most comforting place in the world in an attempt to recruit feathers for itself.
Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences Chesed
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.
Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences Chesed
They convince themselves that what they’re doing is for the best.
Servant Roland
Convince themselves? There’s nothing to convince, it is for the best.
Servant Roland
There’s literally no better option than to leave the Backstreets, join a Wing, and spend a stable life in the Nest.
Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences Chesed
Then who gets to decide how to “blend” people? No, is it even necessary in the first place?
Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences Chesed
Do we really need to pick out certain people? Can’t we just live as we are, as our own flavors?
Servant Roland
You’re talking like it’s so simple. Questions like that won’t get you to anything other than more questions.
Patron Librarian - Soc. Sciences Chesed
Is that so~?
Servant Roland
It is so. Thanks for the coffee. I’ll be going now.
