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[bulletfool]

This is Kohei Izumi.
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[mombastic]

[ ... That's a bit of a complicated question, and Otome grimaces ever-so-slightly. ]

You could say fairly recently, if we don't count my time here.

[bulletfool]

But . . . there wasn't anything like that before I got here.

[mombastic]

Mm, well... people also come from different times. It might not have happened to you yet.

[ Hopefully. ]

[bulletfool]

There was no news about something that huge before I got here. Still, an apocalypse? Unbelievable . . . What happened?

[ And there's something about demons? ]

[mombastic]

Well, ah... you could say some sort of alien administrator decided humanity wasn't worth keeping around anymore, and so sent a lot of demons and other creatures to destroy us.

[ Cliffnotes. ]

[bulletfool]

[ Um!! ]

What was that administration called? They couldn't have been Neighbors.

[mombastic]

Well, the most recent set is what we call Triangulum.

[ We won't go into the Septentriones and Polaris. ]

[bulletfool]

"Triangulum"?

[ Okay. It starts with "tri" like trion, but that's where the similarity ends. The word rolls clumsily off of Izumi's tongue. ]

I don't recognize that at all.

[mombastic]

That's probably for the best. If I could, I'd prefer that no one ever had to deal with them.

[bulletfool]

[ Izumi nods. He can understand that sentiment. ]

Although it's the future . . .

You're pretty incredible, Yanagiya-san.

[mombastic]

That's sweet of you to say, Kohei-kun... but it's more that I'm just surrounded by pretty incredible people.

[bulletfool]

There must be other demon tamers, aren't there? Are you all part of an organization that fights for humanity?

[mombastic]

Not all of us. Some were made demon tamers fairly recently, and not all of them want to use that power to help. Others do, but do so outside of an organization.

... As for me, I was a part of one called JP's.

[bulletfool]

So it's not a regulated power.

[And there are multiple organizations. He wonders how one comes by such a power in the first place.]

What's it like to work for JP's?

[mombastic]

[ Don't ask, Izumi, it involves videos of dead people-- ]

Mm... it was pretty rigidly structured, but I enjoyed working there and dedicating resources for the sake of civilians.

[ in that case, Miyako had definitely been a better leader than Yamato. Which she won't say. ]

[bulletfool]

[ Sounds fun!? ]

That sounds kinda like your other job. Either way, you're saving lives.

[ Only, one career path is probably more violent than the other. ]

[mombastic]

You could say my job in general is to save lives-- so either way, I'm accomplishing that to the best of my ability.

[ Even if she can't save everyone... ]

[bulletfool]

I'd like to see how a demon tamer fights sometime.

[ It'd be so cool! But the surroundings are calm, and that's probably a good thing, so here's him mentally knocking on wood. ]

Is the freezing anything like Karl-san's ice?

[ Speaking of whom – no signs of him yet. The neon blue is stubbornly hidden. ]

[mombastic]

[ goddammit Karl-- ]

In a sense, but it's more like enclosing the enemy in a block of ice instead of freezing the entire area.

[ Or Otome. ]