Forty Seventh Summons: Another Question

[miss_enma_ai]

 [She's been doing a lot of thinking lately. Never a good sign. After that talk with Japan though, she needed to. She goes to the phones.]

.....

How do you forgive people?

[Action: You can find Ai sitting on the steps of her house. She's just watching the street. And anyone who walks by. No this isn't creepy at all.....]

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[miss_enma_ai]

Does it?

[miss_enma_ai]

....what if they're dead?

[action]

[strike_you_out]

[Slugger sits on the same step, turning the pages of a dictionary until he finds what he's looking for.]

For-give.
One, to excuse for a fault or offense; pardon.
Two, to renounce anger or resentment against.
Three, to absolve from payment.

[Huh. So that's what it means.]

[miss_enma_ai]

[Looking over at it.]

They don't tell you how to do it though.

[strike_you_out]

[Shaking his head. They might need an encyclopedia for that.]

You want to stop being angry at someone?

[miss_enma_ai]

I want to know how to do it.

[xuffasch]

Why would you want to?

[miss_enma_ai]

Because hatred is a seed that will grow inside you till it has devoured you entirely and you are nothing but hate. Spending your life in an endless circle of pain and agony till you wind up in Hell.

[Ai, is well aware she is a hypocrite. Though to be fair, she should be in Hell, and she would be if the Lord of Hell didn't have a use for her]

[xuffasch]

Well, that's over dramatic.

[miss_enma_ai]

It's also true.

[Phone]

[godisachild]

Good question. I have no friggin' clue either.

...Guess first you got to decide if they're even worth it.

[Phone]

[miss_enma_ai]

.....how do you do that?

[Phone]

[godisachild]

Well I mean why do you want to forgive 'em? Do you want to forgive them because you're just tired of being mad at them, or because you actually mean it? I mean, I guess that's what I'm trying to say? I dunno....

[miss_enma_ai]

Oh.

[She'll think about that for a moment.]

I'm tired of being mad at them. ....and I'm curious about how people go about forgiving people who have done horrible things to them.

phone

[heartfelthope]

I suppose... the best way is to find a way to understand them.

[miss_enma_ai]

Understand them?

[heartfelthope]

Yes. I don't think any person is truly evil, they are only... convinced of something that might not be right.

[miss_enma_ai]

Even if they admit that what they have done is horrible?