superhell pcs: date

[teufelshund]

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[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. ]

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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.

[psynchronise]

So your plan didn’t really work out for you then?

[ >:/ ]

[teufelshund]

The information I got from that wasn't useless, but unfortunately it did more to disprove the theories I'd had than support them.

[psynchronise]

[ stares into the abyss for a couple of minutes. ]

How tragic for you.

[ dryly. ]

[teufelshund]

Unfortunate for everyone that it didn't get us closer to getting out of here.

[ sips. ]

You've known what I am for a while. Did it really come as a surprise that I didn't share your human sense of morality?