caughtinanetwork | 03 - some questions [video]

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03 - some questions [video]

[Shiro is nice enough to wait until after all the dreamtroubles to pose this question to the network.]

Just curious, but how many of you here have jobs? A lot of stuff is free, so nobody really has to do anything, but it seems like it'd get boring if there wasn't work to do every day.

[he may or may not be debating doing some real work, after two weeks of being lazy.]

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[ All he knows is that the boys are half-demon... he's never heard about their parents, well, their biological father at least. Yukio never wants to tell him. It's a touchy subject.

But somehow, he can see why the boy seems to hero worship this man so. ]

That right? Back where I come from, demons let you see them only if they want to. The humans have it tough. The one I knew was here but a few months ago.

It's like that usually in my world too: demons are only visible to humans if they want to be. But if a human gets a mashou- a certain kind of wound inflicted by a demon- they can see demons any time, regardless of whether the demon wants to be seen or not.

Fortunately it's pretty rare outside of controlled circumstances, usually new students at the academy have to have one purposefully inflicted on them to continue their studies. But it does happen sometimes.

[ Have a low whistle for that. ]

So... if you get hurt by a demon, that's when you lot get to see them? Blimey, you exorcists have it hard.

[ brb feeling for Yuki just even more than he already does. ]

That only happens the first time, from then on you can see demons all the time. And like I said, it's usually really rare. Demons can only hurt humans if they possess something, and that's pretty hard for them to do.

We also have ways to make that power go away, but most people refuse it. I can't say I blame 'em either. As scary as demons are, it's even scarier to know they're there but not be able to see them.

[ Small shiver from that. ]

Can't blame them. I'd be bricking it if I knew there was something out there that was bally dangerous and I couldn't see them anymore...

It's the sensible choice. We're always short on exorcists anyway, I haven't seen a class larger than ten even when I was a student, so it's much better for people to face their fears and join the fight.

Have to say, that's quite admirable for a line of work where you're bound to come a cropper if you don't know what you're doing.

You lot are rather hardy for humans, eh?

Well of course, we have to protect the people who can't protect themselves. We've got to be strong.

Don't have to tell me twice. You lot already are with all the mess you go through.

I've prolly nattered your bleeding ear off by now though with all my questions. Am I keeping you from anything?

Not really. Without the constant threat of demons trying to possess people and unleash hell on earth, I'm left with not much to do.

A world without demons... have to admit the idea's a bit tempting.

[ A small chuckle. ]

Would do us a bleeding favor if those animals wouldn't be going after the souls that need collecting. Course, the job'll prolly be a touch more dull without them.

That's happening here?

[People do come back, but he's not sure how it all works.]

[ There's a pause as he shakes his head. ]

M'not sure. Laws of death sure as hell prolly don't apply here. Any fellow who's died comes back after a few days. Not like being a reaper helps any. Seems we can't see souls anymore the same way we used to.

That's probably so you don't see where anyone's souls go during those five days while they're dead.

[It's said in a more musing tone, like he's mulling it over himself. It's curious that there are so many reapers here, yet nobody really knows what happens to someone when someone dies.]

Prolly so.

[ And he can't help but shiver from that. The idea of a place being able to suppress even reapers from seeing souls... ]

S'just a bit unnerving is all, sir...

I can imagine. It must be difficult, to be used to having an ability and suddenly not being able to use it.

S'not just that what unnerves me, really. More like the thought of "they can do that", d'you know what I mean?

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