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You were a cop, weren't you? What did you use to enforce the law, nice words and good cheer?

i was highway patrol
traffic
and we dont point guns at ppl 2 enforce the law!!
duels is the usual way
just like everything else

You shouldn't have to for normal people, but not everyone obeys the law!

Duels? Do you use swords or something? That seems worse than guns, more personal risk!

no
not like that
duel as in play duel monsters
a card game
even gods and time travelers played by the games rules
it mite sound strange
bt its better than solving things w/ violence

[What the hell. Card games? Yukio stares disbelievingly at his laptop for a solid ten minutes before he can bring himself to type again.]

You're kidding.

im not kiddin
its just how things r done bck home
if someones doing something wrong
u duel
win or lose
ppl respect the outcome
other than in special circumstances
ppl dont get hurt
n even then
as a duelist
u can still fight back with ur cards
w/o doing violence back

I don't know anyone over the age of 12 that would ever consider such a thing in Japan, and as far as I know those things are very, very popular, along with monster-catching games.

How the heck did your country ever get that sort of thing to actually work?

in my japan every1 is into the cards
from kids 2 old farts
idk the history of it
or how it became our way of life
its been that way long b4 i was born
bt it helps that theres a lot of tech 2 support the game
nothing cooler than watching monsters duke it out
i can show u sum time

a lot of tech develoepd 4 the game also supports our city 2
the same tech makes limitless clean energy
tech like our motorbikes tap in2 that
my bros more in2 this stuff so he could give u details if u rly wanted

[After all, Yusei's dad was the one who really developed a lot of this stuff.]

No, that's alright. I think I'd like to learn at some point but perhaps under different circumstances. The idea that any law enforcement can get by on a child's game seems for lack of a better word really stupid.

But if it works for your people, then it works. It likely results in fewer problems as well, even if I can't fathom relying on such a thing. I don't think it will work here though. I'll have to teach you how to use a pistol, challenging me to a card game if I go crazy isn't going to do much good.

Edited 2016-06-27 15:02 (UTC)

[o no u didn't just call duel monsters stupid, Yukio!! But Crow metaphorically bites his tongue; he doesn't want to pick a fight with Yukio. He's been doing that enough this week.]

i kno tht
im not stupid
ive been here long enough 2 kno
that sometimes we r forced in2 violence
and that ppls response 2 problems here is to hurt each other
dueling only works if it actually means something 2 ppl
and it doesnt mean a damn thing to near everyone here
damn it
i hate this place
fine
ill learn

Find a way to force everyone to comply with the rules of card games, and here too it would likely become the norm. Someone somewhere in your history had to have done it, so there's probably a way.

Hurting each other is a part of human nature. It's not the ONLY part of human nature, or the biggest, but it's there. The little parts of our brains still living in the jungle, existing by nature's laws.

Since my presence is not exactly welcome or pleasant for you it may take a bit for me to get around that little problem. And find a gun that works with webbed fingers. I know what to do about the former but the latter will be difficult.

i think
the game existed b4 it got popular
cause old gods r bound by the rules 2
the mark on my arm isnt just 4 show
well i guess it is here
bt back home it meant something
like everythin else
itd b real gr8
if we could just challenge the fog god 2 a duel

i kno
damn it
im just
no nvm

yukio
wat r u planning

If only the rules of home applied here. You could challenge these 'gods' to duels, I could find the right Fatal Verse and kill them on the spot.

I hate this place.

I'm planning lots of things! Among them a couple ideas of how to possibly make things a little eaiser for you. Incidentally do you still find me hard to deal with if I'm a bat?

that would b nice
then we could go home

me too
i meant more specifically
how r u plannin on fixing this
problem
i dunno
guess we ll hv 2 find out

I think there's other ways. I just don't think we can use her own power against her.

This particular problem, possibly by asking Mana for help. I have a small store of coins saved up, and if I'm not a vampire anymore the problem might vanish!

Don't tell anyone though, please. I don't need a lecture on why she can't be trusted either. I know she means well. Just don't touch her pancakes.

I'd like to give the bat thing a try though if you're willing. If you can tolerate me in that shape I can stand being six inches tall for a while.

h8 2 say it bt
using the fog gods power
seems 2 b working out ok 4 the 4th god

hows mana gonna help
dw i kno shes alrite
she saved my brother
thats good enuf 4 me

yeah ill give it a go
worth a shot

If he really has half of it, and she can't get it back, or influence him at all, it's not really hers anymore is it.

She, like Tikbalang, can temporarily change our species. I have enough coins, I think, to become something else for a while. If it's vampires you have issues with, I'm sure I can find something else to be for a while.

A fish man maybe!

But first the bat thing. Next time we're both home and it's after dark we'll give it a go. If you feel at all unpleasant in my presence just say so and I'll leave immediately.

still orginally belonged 2 her
so i wouldnt rule out takin her power
4 our own uses
yknow?

if its a vampire thing
i kno another vampire but i kinda h8 the guy anyway
youre goin thru a lot of trouble 4 this
and we dont even know how long the parasites r gonna stick around
it sux
i
thanks yukio
i rly appreciate it

but
if theres any1 who should leave if the bat thing doesnt work out
it should b me
this is ur house
i can crash at my bros until we fix this
movin round is no problem 4 me
im used 2 it

If it helps you feel better, it also lets me enjoy the summer for a while. It's trying to know that it's beautiful weather and I can't go out so long as there's sunshine.

I have nothing else to do with these coins anyway. Why should anyone have to move out at all?

If it doesn't work we'll have to think of something else though.

heh
thats 1 way of looking at it
hey if u go fish
i can show u the underwater cool stuff

yea
ok
i hope this works
empress did say that the parasites grow faster in monsters
bt who knos how long its gonna take
b4
yea

Might as well make the most of it! Especially if you know a lot of good places. I'll have a month, two at the most, to pack in as many underwater adventures as I can get.

I still think it would have been a good idea to move the healthy humans out of Kulen and burn the place to the ground to prevent spreading infection. I don't think those bugs are ever going to be our allies.

We're just tools even to them. Useful incubators.

ill make a calendar

[He won't.]

i dont think thats gonna do much
the burning that is
i went underground
the bugs can swim in lava
fire prob aint gonna do much
if we could find a way to expose the parasites 2 sunlight tho
bt moving ppl
yeah

yea they rly dont have any of our interests in mind
just like anyone with power here
damn it

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