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[demoncompkid]

[Michi is still trying to get used to being in the Mall again. It amazes him that time really hasn't seemed to pass... at all, really. It's happened before, but with such a long time... he would have thought that it would have been longer

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[arisato_yue]

[Michi's not the only one who's got things to get used to. She wouldn't have stopped, wouldn't have recognized him--

But Set did. And that got her attention--Oh. That's...]

...Michi.

[demoncompkid]

[He looks up. Tries to think of her name. It's been so long, it's on the tip of his tongue, what is i -]

Yue?

[arisato_yue]

...Yes. [just...sits down next to him.]

...It's been a while.

[demoncompkid]

It has.

... Far too long. [Takes a sip of coffee.] Many, many years for me.

[arisato_yue]

I can imagine so. It's been...a few days in my case but....

...[She sighs.] They were very long days.

[demoncompkid]

... I see.

Any particular reason why?

[arisato_yue]

...I don't know...if you were still here...I fell...No. When I was pushed into the TV--which I still have to beat the shit out of Naoya for, remind me to do that later--and...

[She just puts a hand to her head--another headache. No one told her the sea of souls were such a loud bunch, but it makes sense. They want to be fused....to be born. More than that, Set keeps a running...commentary on her doings.]

....Facing your true self isn't an easy thing to do, really.

[demoncompkid]

That was about when I left. Naoya did that? ... I'm not surprised, honestly.

[He puts a hand on her shoulder, resting it there gently.]

Ah. I've been inside of there for other people, but... not for myself. If I recall... she had a good point, though.

[He hunches his shoulders, not looking at her.] Why did I ever try to help them? Most of them shunned me, and I must have messed up somehow, or there wouldn't have been a need for a new King of Bel.

[arisato_yue]

[Yue stares at him for a while, before standing up with a roar that--Oh. Set. Set's in charge now, and grabbing Michi up by the collar.]

Do not speak to us of your self-pity, YHWH. Humans are but children--a child cannot be left to it's own devices until it has been taught how to behave. That is why I took Horus' eye, no matter what anyone would have you believe.

They are nothing but children, and will act as such when things are not easy. They turned away and forgot us when things became to hard...in time, they will also forget you. But a child cannot be blamed for forgetfulness and ignorance....

They don't know any better. It falls to us, who do know better, to teach them.

[FALCON PAWNCH!]

[demoncompkid]

[Just takes the punch, coffee cup spilling on the floor. He stares at Yue/Set calmly.]

I am not Him, first and foremost. I have tried to teach them better, but there is a point where I begin to lose my patience.

They have not forgotten me, they have outright declared rebellion. There are many humans who back the new King of Bel - not all, but enough to make a difference in her campaign.

I know what humans were like. I was once one myself. I have tried to be just and fair, but human minds are not built to operate the same way a god's mind does.

[arisato_yue]

If you give up hope, then who will keep it? They no longer know what it is that hurts them, or what makes them happy. [...And now it's both Yue and Set speaking. That has to sound interesting.]

I may be afraid of failing, but I cannot give up on them. It was never the gods we needed...In this place I have the time and the resources. Humanity's Wish at large has and will always been solely for happiness. But because they no longer know...

[She's silent for a while, thinking.] It may not be me who does it. Me, nor my children, nor their children. But all I need to do is create that spark...to not let it die out.

They can change. They have before. I can't stop believing in that again.

[demoncompkid]

The new God. She's strong... physically, and mentally. I just don't know if she has conviction.

... The last time the War of Bel took place before my turn at it... it was several millennia. This time it was only about four hundred years. The fact that it's happened again so soon concerns me.

I wish for humanity's happiness as well. I couldn't give it to them. Hopefully the next one to try can. I wish I could say that humanity has changed, but they haven't. Not really. Their basic nature... they seem to not want to change.

[arisato_yue]

That's...not entirely true. They--We want to change. But at the same time...change is terrifying. To change we would have to face ourselves, and...it's rare, that people are brave enough to do that on our own.

[Sighs, pulling out the velvet key.] ...I keep opening doors and searching. I...have seen worlds where it was possible. That things were changing...but the price, in every instance, is so very high. All things have a price...an equal price.

Change on a grand scale is...costly. In those cases, it turned out to be worth it.

[demoncompkid]

The problem is figuring out what that price is. I would give everything for humans to be able to change. And I will, when I return to my world.

Once I return there... I will be killed. It's what has to happen, it seems. I can give nothing more than my life. [But he sounds a little afraid, even though he's faced death before.]

[arisato_yue]

...It's not a price you can pay for them.

It's a price they have to pay, for their Wish. You pay for yours, and they for theres....to take the price of another's Wish is dangerous. [S...sounding kind of Yuuko there. Something else is stirring in her sea of Souls...who is it, that's telling her these things?]

[demoncompkid]

... Regardless, I will die when I return to my world. There cannot be two Gods, and she will not work with me.

[He closes his eyes, and if you look at your COMP you might see it flicker slightly towards Chaos as he listens to something you can't hear.]

Sometimes I think I should have destroyed them for their own sake. [He says it so calmly, too.]