superhell pcs: date

[teufelshund]

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[teufelshund]

As if that would stop you.

[ a smile at aiba. ]

You're certainly cute in this form, at least.

[psynchronise]

Logistically I have so many questions.

[ also that’s his aibestie? don’t make it weird. ]

I am very confident in my cuteness levels.

Although it certainly seems a lot of people brought a lot of surprising creatures with them. More than we had initially imagined — including multiple AIs.

Maybe we should be more concerned so many people died with their pets alongside them.

[teufelshund]

It's a little weird, right? Though maybe it worked differently with ones that were received as rewards later on. Did they have to die to get here too? Are all of Itto's beetles dead?

[psynchronise]

Maybe they’re replicas? Like… dead beetles? Hell beetles? …. [ he’s thinking. ] I hate to say it, but at least an 8.

[ he is just out here. ]

Perhaps it is a technicality. I am not “alive” but I am here anyway. However, technically my data was at risk and the electric current may have contributed to me being considered “dead”.

Or maybe it’s just… what was on you at the time?

[teufelshund]

Was that your rating for Itto?

I can assure you that I absolutely did not have a body pillow with me while I was speaking at a government press conference, at least. But I don't know, maybe it's different for animals and other companions.

[psynchronise]

[ FROWNING. ] Yeah. He’s not exactly shy about the fact he’s got muscle, so— [ shut up date. ]

…

You could’ve told me you did and I’d be less surprised.

[teufelshund]

You think it extends to those muscles too, huh?

[ he sips his drink with a little huff. ]

I'm fully capable of being a professional, you know.

[psynchronise]

I'm only guessing. But-- probably? [ don't most people with ridiculous abs have ridiculous muscles everywhere? that's the logic. ]

...


[ sips his own drink. aiba also stops twirling her little umbrella to just Look at him. ]

[teufelshund]

Wow.

[psynchronise]

Hm. You really are surprised by this.

[teufelshund]

I play a very important role in my world, thank you very much! I'm sorry you never got any boring meeting memories from me.

[psynchronise]

...

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Well, you did bring it pretty much everywhere else here, so we just had to go off what we know.

[teufelshund]

I literally only brought it to places where I was going to sleep and needed a pillow.

[psynchronise]

[ …




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he looks away to try and hide that he’s laughing. aiba continues to stare. ]

Perhaps that was already more than enough.

[teufelshund]

What's wrong with bringing a pillow to what's essentially a sleepover?!

[psynchronise]

It is less the choice to bring a pillow and more the choice of decoration, I believe.

[ date is just gone, farewell. like fully turned away, definitely laughing now. ]

[teufelshund]

[ elbows him!! rude!!!! ]

Okay, the decorations I choose to display in my home have no bearing on how I perform my job. I was single-handedly keeping a demonic invasion of the world at bay for months, you know!

[psynchronise]

[ (“ow—!”)


it does not stop him laughing. ]

I see. [ she pats her little hamster paw on his hand. well done. ] Although my understanding of the difficulties in holding off an invasion when you can stop time is admittedly a little hazy. I would be curious to know more.

[ is she being sincere? is she dragging him? who can say. ]

[teufelshund]

[ FROWNS!!! suddenly he feels like maybe she IS only a 2. ]

I don't have unlimited power, and diverting as much as it takes to maintain the barrier limits my ability to keep my physical form from deteriorating. And I can't just temporarily let up on it because repeatedly stopping the same space and time would create instabilities that could result in the destruction of the world.

[ huffs. ]

This is why I died in the first place!!

[psynchronise]

[ dude don’t drop a lady’s rank because she’s shittalking you in front of this entire bar. that’s rude. ]

I see. So it is more like micromanaging on multiple levels, when you are not simply using it to stop umbrellas. There are theories that time is relative to an individual as well — if you are halting time on multiple different levels depending on how an individual perceives it, then—

[ and she’s off. ]

Spread too thin? Something like that.

[teufelshund]

Something like that.

In any case, it's more complicated than I make it look.

[psynchronise]

[ aiba is still mumbling about time and also einstein’s theory of relativity in the background but i’m not typing all of that up. ]

And the result of slipping is—

[ he taps the bar counter. ] Pretty much this then.

[teufelshund]

[ yeah, letting his control of time slip too much usually leads to the creation of bar counters. ]

If you mean being here, then yes.

The point is I have a lot on my plate and I don't just play around 24/7.

[psynchronise]

[ now that would be a neat power. ]

Hmm.

Not so much now though, huh? [ seeing as, y'know. they're all dead and one of them double died in the most yakety sax way possible. ]

[teufelshund]

Well, yeah, here there hasn't been a whole lot to do outside of trying and failing to get useful answers.