MSQ (Spoiler Warning) - A Breath Of Respite | Should - > Shouldn't?

Spoiler warning.

In the MSQ A Breath of Respite Elidibus says to Zenos:

"...Hm. Unexpected. Most unexpected."
"That immortality should be within the reach of one with a borrowed Echo."
"You have outdone yourself, Zenos yae Galvus."

https://i.imgur.com/Fage7i6.png

Now I was thinking that it might have been intended to be shouldn't instead of should. Because if it's a should then it wouldn't really be unexpected, and you wouldn't really have out done yourself either.

However, if you change should to shouldn't then it all flows with being unexpected and a lauded achievement "oh wow, you reached immortality with THAT? Nice job".

Unless this is some archaic use of should that I don't remember lol. If it was intended to be should then I guess it just didn't really flow to me (which is fine I suppose), goes from unexpected, to expected, back to unexpected while staying on pretty much the same concept/subject :D.

Thanks for reading :)

Edit:

After finishing another quest I reread this and I suppose it can make sense.. I still don't love it since they're separated by sentences. I mean if it was "...Hm. Unexpected. Most unexpected. That immortality should be within the reach of one with a borrowed Echo." (in one text bubble) or something like that, then it flows but with the hard separation I therefore read them separately as they're not within the same text bubble.. and as you see I had a brain fart above lol.

I admit it can be right but because of the hard separation I will only commit to half shame and cowering lol. I think the hard separation is where I got caught off guard (and feel "should not" or removing the hard separation would flow, at least for my poor man's brain XD).

Elidibus is surprised because

Elidibus is inhabiting Zenos's corpse, and as far as he knew, Zenos's soul had moved on. He wasn't expecting that Zenos's soul had discovered how to inhabit a body itself, and so he's remarking on how it's incredible that someone with fake-Echo could do it.

Oh yeah haha I got that, I just read and felt that the middle part was off because they're separated in different chat bubbles. I made the post because I felt it read weird, I knew he was shocked but then the middle part sounds like he's not. If you read it all together as one unit it flows- so I'm wrong if you read it how it was intended hence my edit, but if I deliver you just the middle with enough delay you probably wouldn't get the impression he's shocked (which is why I said I only own up to half shame lol).

Difference from that immortality, as if there are types of immortality (how I first read it and was like, "what?") vs that immortality as in the concept at all works with fake echo.


Actually if you changed should to could it may be clearer too, but like I said I can see how I read it in an unintended way simply due to me parsing the info apart at its separate chat bubbles.

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Originally Posted by Shougun

After finishing another quest I reread this and I suppose it can make sense.. I still don't love it since they're separated by sentences. I mean if it was "...Hm. Unexpected. Most unexpected. That immortality should be within the reach of one with a borrowed Echo." (in one text bubble) or something like that, then it flows but with the hard separation I therefore read them separately as they're not within the same text bubble.. and as you see I had a brain fart above lol.

I admit it can be right but because of the hard separation I will only commit to half shame and cowering lol. I think the hard separation is where I got caught off guard (and feel "should not" or removing the hard separation would flow, at least for my poor man's brain XD).

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Your second reading is correct. Even without the preceding line, it comes off clearly to me as a dismissive/unimpressed remark that such a thing has happened.

Consider the generic "That it should come to this..."