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[bemist]

[ Hello, everyone. You will first receive an image.

It's ten swords.

Just ten swords, in a pile on the floor. Nothing is remarkable about these swords. They're just metal swords. There are ten (10) of them. Golly. ]

Found these in front of my door
I don't need em
So if anyone wants a sword or wants to learn how to stab someone informally
Let me know
Only 10 of you though

[ What a kind and generous and incredibly succinct offer! ]

Comments

[bemist]

It's entirely possible
We call them Abnormalities, back home
As far as I know you're not that much like one

[looped]

[ ... ]

I suppose I'm not too different from an abnormality in general.
But how interesting!
And you deal a lot with these Abnormalities?

[bemist]

I used to suppress them
Then I wound up subduing and working together with them later on
They're pretty insistent when it comes down to it

[looped]

From suppressing to working together with them...
What changed your mind?

[bemist]

Necessity, I guess
They were able to resonate with people's emotions in that place, so sometimes you needed an Abnormality's help to deal with someone who'd resonated with another one

[looped]

Ah, I see
Simply making use of what's available to you.

[bemist]

that's how it is in the City
everyone's a tool of someone else
Though I guess this time around the Abnormalities pretty much demanded to get involved

[looped]

That's just how it goes generally.
Anyone could very well become the Universe's tool if it demands of it.
So how is the City? Outside your Abnormalities.

[bemist]

it's a hellish place where even the rich aren't satisfied, any victim could easily become a perpetrator if they had the power, and very few people have the potential to dream and change for the better

[looped]

If that's the case, why stay there?

[bemist]

outside the City is even worse
and in my case I can't leave

[looped]

Something tying you down there?

[bemist]

yeah
my workplace
you could say my existence is tied to it now

[looped]

A kind of workplace that can't do without you?
Hmmm..
I'm assuming it's not one of those "I'm a workaholic and thus my existence is tied to it" kinda situations!

[bemist]

no I mean
I literally can't exist outside of it anymore
not counting here I guess

[looped]

Oh you are stuck stuck!
My, isn't that an awful predicament.
Does make one wonder how you exist here nevertheless!

[bemist]

who knows
maybe it's just my consciousness

[looped]

An unconscious decision?

[ "Is this a joke." No. Maybe. ]

[bemist]

So you two are just as bad, huh

[ THEY GOT JOKES... ]

[looped]

Whatever do you meaaaan?

[ Noooooo. ]

[bemist]

the puns
who started this first

[looped]

Isn't that the question!
Would you believe me if I said it started with me~?

Haha, just kidding, it's all my little stardust's doing!