Beato and Battler lounged in the smoking room, taking some time for leisure before they started their fourth game.
Beato: You seem to have forgotten something here, Battler. There is quite the error on your Github page.
Battler: Huh, what do you mean? I double checked it. There isn't any typos or messed up files... And surely it runs fine without any error. Ronove, Virgilia, and Gaap just ran it fine. If there's something wrong though, you can make an issue form.
Beato: Hh... Mm... Look down in the download section.
Battler: Hm?.... Oh! I forgot to add libadwaita as a dependency for people who wanna build from source. Let me right that down now! Jeez, that was embarrassing, ihihi... Didn't notice it because I already got the dependencies right on the package managers themselves.
Beato: I knew that. But there is another issue. Look more closely. At your package repository widgets.
Battler: Everything is fine and up to date. What're you on about? ... I see. Is this a trick? It's a little too early for that, isn't it?
Beato: No, there is no trick! Let me to say it in red: I am not tricking you! You forgot something on your repository buttons! It's not a typo or a broken link!
Battler: Red... Huuh, hm, then I must be missing a date or something like that...? I've glued my eyes to the screen! I don't see anything wrong. Since we aren't fighting right now, why don't you just spit it out?
A complicated expression drew itself on Beato's face, which stumped Battler. Truly, the matter was much more serious than Battler had expected, however, his program, a fuzzy finder utility, was not by any means very serious. However, the Golden Witch was a very fickle woman, so it's likely she was making something out to be more important than it was for no real reason.
Beato: You forgot to package bfinder for a major operating system.
Battler: bfinder is on Fedora, Debian, Arch, GUIX system, Void, FreeBSD, Alpine, OpenBSD, Garuda, Gentoo, Homebrew... I even have it on Slack, LiGurOS and OpenMandrive. What, do you want it on winget, too? Anything more fringe than that is pretty unimportant... It's a simple build process. Someone on a Raspberry Pi could do it themselves.
Unusually for the witch, she looked rather meek. She didn't meet Battler's eyes at all for a few minutes, then perked back up.
Beato: N, nevermind. It's not very important. I'll be on my way now.
Battler: On your way? We're still talking though, aren't we?! If you have trouble building from source, I can help you...! Hey!
Battler reached out towards Beato, but his hands phased through. Beato had already disappeared into a cloud of golden butterflies. Battler was left on his own. Drinking the now cold tea Ronove had prepared for him, he thought about why Beato was acting so strangely. He wanted to brush it off as one of her moods, but it bothered him too much to do something like that.
Battler clicked his tongue. He was unsure how to exactly map what he felt into words... In normal, non-game related conversation, Beato didn't use red truths. This meant that Beatrice had, somewhere along the way, began interpreting their situation as a game or challenge for Battler to solve. But why? She clearly enjoyed playing mind games with him, but why would she show disappointment like this? Why would she be so expectant? Why was she acting like she did when she found out Battler didn't enjoy watching his aunt be murdered over and over? That strange, childish disappointment and expectation of understanding showed through, but there was no reason for it too. Battler couldn't be tricked into seeing her as human more than once, so why would she keep trying a method that didn't work?
Despite knowing it was a farce, something twisted in his chest at not meeting whatever expectation she had for him. It was the wrong part of his brain that sought to humanize the witch in some way and wanted to see her as genuine when she wasn't murdering his family or crushing his spirit..
Battler: ....I forgot OpenSUSE. Doesn't she use Tumbleweed?
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed was a major operating system and pretty popular, but he didn't think to include it. Would anyone on OpenSUSE even care about little utilities like this? Aren't they all just enterprise users? They probably never even use their command line. So why would he include something like that? But the same could be said for something like Fedora based distributions too, and even Ubuntu which markets itself as an enterprise solution to Linux. Following that logic, shouldn't he have only packaged 'bfinder' on hobbyist distributions?
More importantly than whatever he thought about, how did Beato interpret him...? Right, by forgetting OpenSUSE, he catergorized it with the 'unimportant' distributions, which also would imply Beato herself is unimportant, right? No, it couldn't only be that. Battler has called Beato a plethora of hateful things and she didn't seem to care... No, it's more like by not even considering OpenSUSE as an option to package for, and finding her operating system to be so unimportant he didn't even remember he wasn't even acknowledging Beato as someone worth remembering details about. It made him think back to her bizarro story about grandpa's homunculus, and how personal she took his attitude towards it, because he didn't see that nonsense as anything worth listening to.
When you play chess, you have to know your opponent inside out to make good moves. The same can be said in detective novels. The gumshoe who doesn't actually understand the motivations of the cast always ends up with faulty reasoning. If you don't understand a person, all your actions towards them will be insincere. So with this, Battler showed to Beatrice that he doesn't even care to remember the things she's expressed to him plainly. That means he doesn't even try to understand her when they fight, like she isn't even a worthy opponent. That was probably what Beato was feeling...
Battler hated the witch, so he should probably feel triumphant about making her feel worthless. He shouldn't care! After all, she'd rejoiced in doing that to him many times. Besides, that witch was like the weather, by the time the fourth game started she would probably be cackling again. Yet, again, the part of him that read human emotions into her made him feel regret. However, what Battler could never understand was why the witch insisted on testing him instead of just outright saying "you forgot to package for me...". Why did she just let her feelings get hurt? Stupid...!!! Useless...!!!
Battler wanted to go ahead and package bfinder for OpenSUSE Tumbleweed now, but he wasn't sure if a late acknowledgement would have its intended effect, or if it was already too late...
