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[10billionpercent]

[Visible now is Senku, and a smashed piece of glass. This is his new mirror already, but it was no accident. He holds up a shard.]

Well, I can report that this appears to be just ordinary mirror glass, I'm no closer to understanding how it works yet.

[It's quite possible that people haven't met him yet, but he doesn't consider that.]

Intersting. I was expecting some kind of technology to explain the so called magic effect.

Any thoughts?

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[10billionpercent]

No matter how random that seems to you, there will always be patterns. And you're limited by the sounds of the language that you can make. And the words that you know.

Humdudgeon, sesquipedalian, disembogue. Words you may not know, but could be part of my chaotic thought. Our limitations are different.

Chaos happens everywhere, but it's not actually as random or chaotic as once thought.

[creepyoldguy]

I'm a shape-shifting demon from hell. You'd be surprised, kiddo.

[10billionpercent]

Is that so? Hell, as in the Christian concept, or as in an actual place?

Are the rules different in Hell?

[ There's not a chance he's going to let an opportunity to learn something interesting go by, if the man is amenable to that. ]

[creepyoldguy]

Ah, no. It's the Netherworld, where all people go when they die, unless they decide to stay topside.

[The Netherworld was awful, but, it was where he'd grown up. ]

It's all rules, paperwork, and bureaucracy. As an agent of chaos, I wasn't exactly adored.

[10billionpercent]

Interesting. I don't particularly believe in a life after death.

[ Well. To a point. But that would be getting off topic. ]

Sounds a lot like Earth was. It's nice to break the rules sometimes.

[creepyoldguy]

It's not life. It's death.

[He had to point that out.]

I should know, since I was born-dead.

[10billionpercent]

Right. You called me a breather. Meaning you don't breathe.

[ Not much gets past him. ]

But you have a consciousness. What defines the difference between life and death?

[creepyoldguy]

Living people have pulses and usually can’t see the dead.

[10billionpercent]

But you're dead, and I can see you.

I've been dead, it's not that great.

[creepyoldguy]

Rules here are all sideways, everyone can see me here. As opposed to pretty much no one back home. And gasp, being dead isn't great?

[Feigned shock with a dramatic chest clutch.]

No kidding. But, it has perks.

[10billionpercent]

If you say so. If you mean the energy that exists within me being transferred to something else, then that is definitely true.

I can't say I was aware of anything while I was dead, so I can't really speak much to an experience exactly.