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[she does not perceive the Doubt, Rita]

Most of the people in my dorm are still injured -- and the ones who weren't went ahead and got injured last night too.

[she's just gonna get a cheesecake, she no longer has the right to criticize rita for her food choices]

Better to save those painkillers for the next time they try and tackle Denji to the ground.

[well, now that the great dessert dilemma is over, they might as well grab a table.

annnd there are a bunch of feelings that surface when she mentions denji, there. concern, alarm, guilt?]

That idiot... I still can't believe that happened.

[time to sit together and emotion share,]

...Was he okay after?

[she might be annoyed, but her annoyance is mostly directed at everyone involved. futaba and hope really tried to yeet themselves into danger just like that]

Ichiro said that he managed to calm down after all that. That he was back to normal, felt bad, that sort of thing. I'll probably try talking to him later.

[she's pretty uncertain...]

Those little adventures are a bit much. I was tempted to beat someone up after mine.

[Rita ur discomfort]

...Has he ever acted like that here before?

No! Never.

He's usually just an oblivious doofus, and while I've seen him get serious now and then, it still wasn't anything like that.

It must have been the stress from Thursday then. Maybe he saw something that triggered him.

[taking a bite of her cheesecake,]

He fights devils and zombies, right? So he's probably used to having to fight for his life.

Yeah... it sounded like he's been through some brutal stuff. He talks about it like it's nothing, but there's no way that doesn't leave a mark on somebody.

[she's just been dissecting her cheesecake into smaller pieces, but she'll finally eat one of them.]

I think so too. ...Not that it's a bad thing, I think. We all probably have something like that.

[we all need therapy]

Maybe. Not sure that anything I've been through is really on the same level, though.

You're a magic user, right? Is that common in your world?

Hm? Yeah. I'm from Aspio, the City of Scholars. Almost everyone there is a mage.

Why, is magic rare where you're from?

Spirits and gods can use magic of a kind, but humans who can wield it are pretty rare. And even then, it's only things like being more spiritually sensitive, not summoning fire or lightning.

Where I'm from, humans can't use magic naturally, but we have technology that lets us borrow power from other sources. [she points to the choker on her neck.] At least, that's how I typically managed the whole "fire and lightning" thing.

Technology, huh? We have something like that, but I don't think it's as advanced.

[would turning on a washing machine count as controlling water...]

What do you mean by 'typically'? Is it different here?

"Typically" as in... that's how it worked for ages, and then something caused the entire nature of magic to change dramatically, so we can't do it that way anymore. I still wear this all the time, but the core's actually totally defunct.

[pazu i just want to replay vesp now]

The entire nature of magic? ...Are you sure that's not on the same level?

[denji may be a zombie hunter but rita??? your entire world??]

I mean, it was kind of a good thing? Our existing system of magic was causing lots of problems, so I figured out a way to change it.

You say that like it was easy.

[rita: it was]

The formula was something I'd been working on for years, with a few tweaks, but once I had that down, it was just a matter of applying it on a large scale. I'll admit I kind of got lucky on a few fronts, though.

...Do you think you could do something like that here? Maybe change whatever's making us sleep every Thursday?

[she thinks about it, frowning...]

I'd need access to whatever the source of that power is, as well as a way to directly interact with it.

That's already more than what I'd be able to do. I'd be able to help if getting my powers back wasn't so ridiculously expensive...

So I'll let you know instead if I end up finding something.

Okay. Good.

... What kind of powers did you have before?

Well, I had all the regular powers a ghost would have. Teleportation, phasing, messing with technology, telekinesis... And then a couple of extra things like summoning and banishing ghosts, casting and breaking curses... Just to name a few.

That was one of the reasons why I volunteered that time. I thought I was the best person who could find Lan Wangji's spirit and figure out what happened.

[and then daycare turned out not to be the afterlife]

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