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[bakegarasu]

[Yeah, it's dark and late. So what? Otoha is standing on top of a roof, letting the camera pan around to take in the city.]

[He doesn't turn the camera towards himself, just faces it towards the coral, glowing softly, before he speaks.]

People can get brought back here. Death doesn't really mean anything, then.

Even at home, though… death wasn't really something that people like me were supposed to fear. Killing didn't really mean anything but the removal of a problem.

[He's quiet for a moment.]

Why do people get so upset about killing or murder? I've never understood it.

[There's another pause, like he's going to say something else, before he shuts off the feed.]

Comments

[bakegarasu]

Less that it's my home... and more that it's easier to stay the same than it is to change.

[shotarcana]

It certainly is. But we all have to get used to changing sometimes. I bet it's actually better. Don't you have more of a sense of purpose?

[bakegarasu]

Here, yeah. At home, I'm still a weapon, just guided by a different hand.

[shotarcana]

Just because you fulfill something else's purpose doesn't mean you can't take purpose from it yourself. It's what the weapon does that counts, isn't it?

[bakegarasu]

True. I just wish I could feel like a person.

[shotarcana]

You don't need to wish. You are a person. I can tell from what we've been talking about.

[bakegarasu]

[... He just shrugs a little.]

I try to believe that, but it's kind of hard.

[shotarcana]

What's hard about it? I think it's obvious.