robopriest | RUFUS CATCH-ALL

[He did say that. Thank you, Shiro.]

. . . Not all demons are the same. Strictly speaking, souls are valuable to Haros.

Your kind of demons, I think you said.

...Do you eat them? Use them? Put them on the mantel to look pretty?

[He stares, clearly unimpressed.]

All I do is catch them. What happens to them afterward has nothing to do with me.

[So it really is about the money for him.]

How do you catch them in the first place?

It's the same as apprehending criminals—with force.

...

You arrest the souls? Like, you just...handcuff them?

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There's no need to cuff them when you have a gun pointed at their head.

Clearly you have to explain what souls are in your world, because in mine they're still basically a big abstract concept.

. . . Souls have form the same way as we do. How else would they be able to escape to the material world?

[he]

[is so lost]

So they're basically just running around on their own. Somehow.

That's why Haros exist—to manage those souls in the afterlife.

[oh wait, he thinks he gets it now]

You're basically preventing them from doing a jailbreak out into the real world?

That's one of the reasons.

Haven't I answered enough questions? I should be able to ask one or two of my own now.

Go ahead, ask away if you want. Your world's just so intriguing.

. . . Have you learned anything new about the Realm?

Hmm.

[He thinks for a moment.]

Well, I know that it doesn't "speak" like you and I do. It seems like it speaks through feelings. Or rather, memories, most likely, given the whole nova deal.

You mentioned that before.

Which of the Leaders have you met?

Did I? [me, sighing at me having 0 memory] Ah, well.

Where, out and about, or in the planetarium?

What are your thoughts on them?

[Either works.]

Hmmm. The one I met...well, they're fun to talk to. And even more fun to tease. But helpful, nevertheless - you just have to know how to ask the right questions.

[how helpfully vague!]

[He is unsurprised by this.]

Helpful in what way?

They don't want to be in this situation as much as we do. So they're effectively on our side.

. . . Those are enough questions.

You're free to go back to watching space.

Don't you want to watch space with me? We could point out constellations together.

You'll have to find someone else.

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