[ this brick is still smarter than senri ]

[usogi]

Comments

[usogi]

... er, for colleagues and stuff, maybe.

But we're gonna be here for six weeks, you know? We might as well get along?

[in like. a friendly way!]

[nosediving]

Nito Senri . . . [he sighs softly.] As Peak Lord, there's a certain way that I must conduct myself. There are brothers and sisters I have known for decades, and I still do not refer to them by their names only.

[usogi]

Do you still have to be Peak Lord even here though?

[









wait.]

Decades?

[nosediving]

Yes.

[to both!]

It has been many years since I ascended to Immortality. I'm much older than I look.

[usogi]

[ . . . . . . . . ]

I need to sit down.

[ramen man you are still somehow the weirdest person he's met here]

[nosediving]

[he didn't even do anything!!]

Does it come to you as that much of a surprise . . . ?

[not sure how to feel about this.]

[usogi]

Wouldn't immortality surprise you?!

- er, well, I guess it wouldn't. Since you are immortal.

But that's not just some common thing where I come from...!!

[HE'S SO DISTRESSED]

[nosediving]

I wouldn't say that it's too common . . . but I suppose it is more prevalent to me, given the nature of my practice.

[usogi]

... I should've asked what a Peak God was, shouldn't I.

[this has strayed so far from the intention of this pc]

Um, can I give you a gift first, and then we can do storytime?

[nosediving]

[senri found out that he's been engaging a senior citizen all this time, and for what?]

A gift?

[usogi]

Mm-hmm.

[and here's senri doing some more close up magic - he flicks his wrist and a rose appears in his hand, thornless.

he offers it out]

For you.

[nosediving]

[senri . . . are you a grave robber?

with a look of surprise, he takes the rose. what a trick!]

What is the occasion?

[usogi]

[why doES EVERYONE THINK HE'S FLIRTING]

Beauty wants more people to talk to. So he sends his regards and hopes you'll come see him soon.

And I think if you show him this rose, it'll make him really happy.

[nosediving]

[he freezes. that's not how he was expecting this to go.]

Your patron god is . . . Beauty?

[usogi]

[senri tilts his head, casual as anything]

I dunno - is he?

[and he offers up a laugh]

Sorry, that's a hard question to answer right now. But I will say that I've gone to visit every god that held their hand out to me in my dream!

[nosediving]

[for a while, all shang qinghua does is stare before he seems to come back to himself.]

I should not have asked such a difficult question, nor can I refuse a divine invitation.

[usogi]

[oh - ]

... um, I think you could, maybe? He wouldn't be super offended or anything... but I think he'd be happier if you went to see him too.

He's really nice, so I don't think you have anything to lose?

[nosediving]

I don't have a reason to refuse a meeting. Since you went through the trouble of delivering this rose, I will go and see him.

[usogi]

[uh.]

Like - right now?

[HE'S SO SERIOUS]

[nosediving]

[no, silly duckling.]

It's ill-mannered to keep a host waiting, but it wouldn't be good to walk out on someone. Was there something else you wanted to talk about?

[usogi]

... well, we could go back to the immortal thing.

[still wild]

If you wanna talk about it, anyway?

[nosediving]

There isn't much to say . . . After years of cultivating, I unlocked the necessary stage to achieve immortality.

[usogi]

[what]

Cultivating... what exactly?

[please

teach senri the secret to immortality]

[nosediving]

The life force inherent in all things. Specifically, the same energy that courses in my body.

[usogi]

.... oh. Yeah, of course.

[he doesn't get it all]