Oohh - yeah! Everyone has phones like mine. And if you wanna play more modern games, Justice is fixing my Switch.
[WHICH TAKA FUCKING BROKE,, but he'll pull up his photo album and start swiping through photos of Tokyo! senri goes around pretty frequently, so there's a bunch of super aesthetic pictures in there. skylines, cute cafes, desserts, some of what looks like a school campus or backstage....]
... What kind of console is the Switch, anyway—wait, why is it broken?
[but yeah the switch came out after 2015, ergo ray doesn't know what it is. oops.
... though in a way, this is a surreal experience. looking through photos of random scenes on a phone. had he, emma, and norman been born into this world instead, is this the kind of thing they'd have been doing?]
Taka dropped it in the snow like an idiot. [he huffs] But it's a pretty new one! It's portable but also one you can hook up to the TV? It's pretty neat. When I get back, let's play.
[but senri will keep just swiping through - his life on display for ray. it's so painfully normal.]
Yep - one of the best. They call me the hope of the theater. It's why I even got a chance to attend Shinonome. My grades aren't the best, but I'm talented.
Traveling is expensive... and I get paid well from shows, but these days it all goes straight back to making sure I can eat and keep up at the academy. But I do want to go to New York or London one day! They have really big performing scenes - Broadway and West End.
When I was a kid, I really wanted to see the Mona Lisa and the Sagrada Família. [surprise, ray is actually a giant art/architecture nerd, apparently.] Well, I guess it doesn't matter anymore, though.
he just smiles at that, though it's not exactly a happy one.]
... You asked once, in the first week here, why I was so prepared to deal with death. You seemed kind of confused when I explained, but—well, I guess you came to some kind of conclusion.
Anyway, you're not too far off if you guessed that the orphanage was a front. It's just that it wasn't a war we were being sent to.
[...]
Humans and demons agreed to split the world because they couldn't coexist, and they were tired of fighting. There was one problem with their solution, though.
... Dividng Earth, on its own, only benefits humans. For the demons, that would've meant separating them from the species they fed upon.
[he's not going to mention how shitty everything still is because that's not the point of this and senri is apparently traumatized enough already??
actually jk he still has to mention some of it.]
Either way, we're the sacrifices meant to keep the peace between humans and demons. It's likely that humans from the other side are hunting us down now—because if we won't be what they need us to be, then our existences need to be erased.
That's why we can't cross over to the human world. At best, we'd be killed for it. At worst, our actions would spark another war between humans and demons.
[...]
I hate the system and I refuse to die for it. But I have no intention of making martyrs out of my family, and I won't decide that the rest of humanity should die with us either.
Don't be. I've had my entire life to get used to it, and honestly, our current situation is better than what I could've hoped for.
... Well, Emma, as the idealist she is who cares way too much about others and not herself—she wants to change the world. Saving our family isn't enough for her; she wants to liberate every single cattle child.
But it works out for us, I'll admit. If the human world is beyond our reach, then the only option left is to make the demon world inhabitable for us. We've got a lead on how to rewrite the initial pact between humans and demons, so that's where we're starting.
[...
he smiles, before reaching up to flick senri's head.]
So don't make that face. The demons made the mistake of educating us to improve our "quality", and now we're using that same intelligence to beat them at their own game. I'll be fine.
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[WHICH TAKA FUCKING BROKE,, but he'll pull up his photo album and start swiping through photos of Tokyo! senri goes around pretty frequently, so there's a bunch of super aesthetic pictures in there. skylines, cute cafes, desserts, some of what looks like a school campus or backstage....]
Yes and yes.
I can do it all - it's what I'm known for.
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[but yeah the switch came out after 2015, ergo ray doesn't know what it is. oops.
... though in a way, this is a surreal experience. looking through photos of random scenes on a phone. had he, emma, and norman been born into this world instead, is this the kind of thing they'd have been doing?]
You must be pretty good, then.
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[but senri will keep just swiping through - his life on display for ray. it's so painfully normal.]
Yep - one of the best. They call me the hope of the theater. It's why I even got a chance to attend Shinonome. My grades aren't the best, but I'm talented.
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[probably less so for senri but eh.]
Do you get to travel?
[while he's been genuinely curious throughout the conversation so far, it gets upped a notch here.]
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Don't remind me.
[UGH - ]
Traveling is expensive... and I get paid well from shows, but these days it all goes straight back to making sure I can eat and keep up at the academy. But I do want to go to New York or London one day! They have really big performing scenes - Broadway and West End.
Zo is from the States - you can ask her about it!
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[born into the wrong dimension, and all.]
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... how come? You can't go to normal Earth at all...?
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Theoretically, yes. On a practical level, though, there's a reason Earth was divided to begin with.
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[this is so weird for him to even wrap his head around]
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To put an end to a war between humans and demons. [surprise!] The humans got one half, and the demons got the other.
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Demons...? But - then why aren't you in the world with humans? Or -
[that has to be the case, right? if ray didn't know anything about senri's world directly....]
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he just smiles at that, though it's not exactly a happy one.]
... You asked once, in the first week here, why I was so prepared to deal with death. You seemed kind of confused when I explained, but—well, I guess you came to some kind of conclusion.
What were you thinking back then, Senri?
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But....
[demons...]
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[he laughs, just a little.]
I have no idea how he came up with that one.
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[unfortunately]
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[ninjas can only work so far as an excuse!!]
Anyway, you're not too far off if you guessed that the orphanage was a front. It's just that it wasn't a war we were being sent to.
[...]
Humans and demons agreed to split the world because they couldn't coexist, and they were tired of fighting. There was one problem with their solution, though.
... Dividng Earth, on its own, only benefits humans. For the demons, that would've meant separating them from the species they fed upon.
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a lot isn't it]
.... fed....?
[give him uhhh a couple seconds]
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ray just taps the number on his neck, looking pretty nonchalant about the whole thing.]
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senri blinks]
- but you're away from that now, right. Underground?
[hE'S
TRYING SO HARD NOT TO JUST DWELL ON THE REALLY TRAUMATIC INFO HE JUST RECEIVED]
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Well, we did escape.
[he's not going to mention how shitty everything still is because that's not the point of this and senri is apparently traumatized enough already??
actually jk he still has to mention some of it.]
Either way, we're the sacrifices meant to keep the peace between humans and demons. It's likely that humans from the other side are hunting us down now—because if we won't be what they need us to be, then our existences need to be erased.
That's why we can't cross over to the human world. At best, we'd be killed for it. At worst, our actions would spark another war between humans and demons.
[...]
I hate the system and I refuse to die for it. But I have no intention of making martyrs out of my family, and I won't decide that the rest of humanity should die with us either.
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Ray-kun...
That's - .... I'm sorry.
What are you going to do next - once you get back...?
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... Well, Emma, as the idealist she is who cares way too much about others and not herself—she wants to change the world. Saving our family isn't enough for her; she wants to liberate every single cattle child.
But it works out for us, I'll admit. If the human world is beyond our reach, then the only option left is to make the demon world inhabitable for us. We've got a lead on how to rewrite the initial pact between humans and demons, so that's where we're starting.
[...
he smiles, before reaching up to flick senri's head.]
So don't make that face. The demons made the mistake of educating us to improve our "quality", and now we're using that same intelligence to beat them at their own game. I'll be fine.
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he pouts slightly at the flick but.... eventually shakes his head and laughs softly.]
... Ray-kun is so amazing. If it's you, and your friend Emma, and the rest of your family - then I'm sure that you'll be able to do it.
[ . . . ]
I know it's unlikely but - please let me know if there's anything I can do to help.
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