Audience: Gojou Satoru

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Comments

[mukagen]

I see. I only asked because I killed the people in my trip and I didn't receive any side effects aside from...

[ Idly gestures at getting fucked up and losing his mind. Anyway! ]

But the other group apparently died for resisting and suffered aftershocks days later. I'm kind of wondering what exactly it's feeding on if both of these experiences were different. It's not lives even though you guys did die...

Emotion? [ A joke again: ] Maybe blood.

[probe]

The same thing that's constantly floating around this place. Indulgence. The first group didn't indulge in the way it was implied that they should. Your group did. Ours it didn't matter because it was never meant to be a reflection of what you went through.

But it's only a guess for now. I haven't the proof to say for certain.

[mukagen]

It's weird to call that indulgence when it isn't something I'd wish upon anyone. Especially since it's pressured onto us instead of welcomed.

[ The Avatars getting different treatment has him frowning. It was gruesome and sounds unnecessary when put in that way. ]

Are you guys going to keep looking into it after that?

[probe]

[there's a silence following that because they agree, but it's not really on them to say so.]

We don't really have another choice in the matter. Or, at least...not looking into it isn't going to help. So why stop now?

[mukagen]

Logically speaking, you're correct. There's a failsafe with you avatars where you will survive even when losing a whole head, so if anything it would be the most efficient method. You are all clearly stronger than us, too. Progress would be steady, or at least steadier than nothing. The issue would be being trapped wherever it is forever, if that's possible.

[ If Gojou was in the same position, he would keep going and going and going. Emotional wounds and scars are temporary, real wounds and scars heal, but... Not everyone is the same. ]

... Take a break in between. All right?