06: [Video, Japanese]

[personalninja]

How does one take care of a small child?

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[ten_no_ryuu]

[How had Grandmother...]

Keep them warm when it's cold, feed them when they are hungry, and keep them safe. That is what my grandmother did for my sister and I.

[personalninja]

Those are very vague.

[ten_no_ryuu]

My apologies. It has been quite some time since I was with my Grandmother, and I do not have any personal experience with young children.

[personalninja]

You sound fairly young yourself.

[ten_no_ryuu]

By the standards of my own world, I am. By the standards of other worlds, I'm rather old.

[personalninja]

...

Demon?

[ten_no_ryuu]

No.

You could say I am a spirit.

[personalninja]

A spirit.

[He clearly has trouble believing this.]

[ten_no_ryuu]

A shinigami, if you wish for the precise term.

[Which is understandable.]

[personalninja]

...A shinigami.

[He's heard the stories of the death gods who take souls to the afterlife, but they're just a myth in his world. There's no way he's going to believe that this guy here is literally a shinigami. But Shinigami is also a psuedo-nickname for people who kill a lot, so he's wondering if that's what this kid means.]

You fight frequently, then.

[ten_no_ryuu]

[Well, you're talking to a myth who has no idea there's another meaning to the term]

When the need arises, yes. I do not seek out trouble, if that is what you're asking.

[personalninja]

[Oho, it's time for confusion.]

It's probably better that way, seeking trouble will eventually bring you to trouble you cannot handle.

[ten_no_ryuu]

[The best time of all]

I've run into that kind of trouble without even looking for it.

[personalninja]

That is unfortunate, then.

[ten_no_ryuu]

It is our way of life. We have grown used to it.