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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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[dr_riley]

Could be crystal technology. Easy to miss to an untrained eye, but haven't gone and smashed mine. Think teleportation mirror is white hole generating/stabilising device.

[originaldragoon]

Magic power is magic power. There are just some phenomena that cannot be explained logically.

(Video)

[creepyoldguy]

Okay, Breather.

It’s not too complicated. It’s just magic, that breaks all science and logic.

[10billionpercent]

Even if it is magic, as you say, magic must have rules? Logic to it? You can't just do whatever you want.

So there must be a method to how this works.

[10billionpercent]

Why can't it be explained logically? Doesn't magic have rules?

[10billionpercent]

You're welcome to take a look at mine if you want, since I went to the trouble of breaking it open. It looks like an ordinary mirror to me, but we all know it doesn't work that way.

A white hole stabilizing device? Now that is fascinating.

[creepyoldguy]

It’s chaos.

[Back home it was, at least. Certainly his own powers were.]

[originaldragoon]

It depends on the kind of magic. Some magic can just be plan chaotic.

[dr_riley]

Might take you up on it, though the really advanced stuff requires a lab for precise diagnostics.

I think. No other theories yet seem as plausible.

[Video (or action if he's in the apartment)]

[spectacularlyhighking]

Well I could have told you that. The question now is - do you have any idea how you intend to replace your now broken mirror?

[10billionpercent]

What kind of analysis are you looking for? If a lab doesn't exist, I can certainly create one. You'd be surprised how far you can get with every little.

Very interesting. Have you studied much quantum theory?

[10billionpercent]

But magic has rules doesn't it? Limitations? Even chaos theory has limitations.

[10billionpercent]

Chaos has rules. Randomness is never truly random. Magic must work the same way, there must be limitations and rules.

[Action]

[10billionpercent]

[ He's just in their room sitting on the floor and he has a new mirror. ]

It was expensive.

[ He's still fiddling with the glass shards, even though he's finished with them, looking at them, turning them in his hand. He'll probably cut himself if he's not that careful.]

But I'm not exactly buying much anyway.

[ He's too used to his clothes to change them, even if it makes him stand out. That's never bothered him. ]

[dr_riley]

Chemical analysis, energy emission, presence of any conductive or semi-conductive materials or structural patterns, that sort of thing.

Yes. Astrophysics, mechanical engineering, quantum mechanics. Yourself?

[creepyoldguy]

Seventeen, kumquat, evacuate.

[The demon grinned.]


Chaos is a beautiful, beautiful, thing, fella.

[10billionpercent]

Nothing I noticed on first glance, but you're right I don't have the kind of lab set up to deal with that at the moment. Granted, that's only a matter of time, I'm not going to abandon my scientific pursuits.

I've studied chemistry, biology, physics, engineering, geology and mathematics. Especially astrophysics. If it was related to science, and I could get my hands on it, I probably read it.

I was trying to get into space. JAXA was my fallback, but I was trying to go on my own. I have successfully shot one rocket into orbit.

[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.