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[discomfort]

Well, he is dead, so I am not surprised.

[ anyway ]

Then... something else must have happened with him, especially since it sounds as if we all passed out at around the same time.

[egodist]

[he just watches owner for a long moment

before he just asks - ]

Enjoying yourself?

[discomfort]

[ he smiles. ]

I would not say I am enjoying myself. I did like Dahut-san a lot, and I enjoyed talking to Luke-sama when I got to.

[ but there is nothing like sadness or anger radiating off him. the mood is basically how he would have felt at any other time this week, which was fairly neutral. ]

But I will admit my motivation in finding out what happened may not align with everyone else's.

backtags.... feel free to drop tho! blows kiss from gy

[egodist]

And what would you say your motivation is?

[discomfort]

I just want to know why someone would do it.

[ not to get revenge or anything. it's just plain curiosity. ]

[egodist]

Objective curiosity, is it?

[oh, to be an observer again...]

Without much attachment to the rest of us.

[discomfort]

Perhaps not without attachment... after all, I am stuck in the same exact situation that the rest of you are in!

[ he can't say he is just an observer, here. ]

But I won't lie and say I process things the same as everyone else.

[egodist]

Is this also part of being a demon?

[discomfort]

[ he thinks about it. ]

Sometimes.

[egodist]

Explain.

[discomfort]

Different demons have different experiences. For example, one of my employees is half-demon. He had lived life as a human for some time, so how he goes through life is quite different from I, since I have never been human.

[egodist]

And so what is your thought process here - knowing that someone has died, and others are distraught.

Your emotions don't indicate much flicker of what humans would normally call empathy.

[discomfort]

I will help try to solve what happen. And everything else...

Well, I will figure out as we go. Consoling people does not always go right for me.

[egodist]

Do you still try?

[discomfort]

If I believe I have the right to, I may still try.

[egodist]

The right... to console others?

[discomfort]

Hm... no, I think the more appropriate way of saying it would be... sometimes I don't think I'd be the right one to do it.

[egodist]

Does that truly matter to you? Whether or not people are consoled. Or do you go through the motions because it's what society expects?

[discomfort]

I do not go with what society expects, I think. I don't interact with it nearly enough to put that much thought into it.

But if I see a child crying, even I may want to dry its tears. But what if I am the cause of it? Should I still try to console? It's something I can't always wrap my head around.

[egodist]

Are you capable of understanding your own logic, or do you follow whim?

[discomfort]

I believe I am very logical!

Although not everyone might be able to follow it.

[egodist]

Then extrapolate your logic to me—you caused someone pain, but you may still seek to soothe it.

Why?

[discomfort]

Well, did I mean to cause them pain? If that was my intent, I would not apologize, but even I am not full of myself enough to not be able to realize when I am the one in the wrong. But there is a difference between wounding someone's pride, and wounding their, ah... feelings. You can almost always predict how they would react when it's the former.

But if I did not intend to do it, and I know that my words might be welcomed, I may try. My entire inn revolves around my guests being able to entrust something rather intimate of themselves to me, so I need to make sure that stays intact.