Pestilentem PC: Nozomi

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Week 0, Monday

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[After all of the excitement of meeting the puppets, Blade can be found in the library. He is going through book after book, skimming the contents of the front page and setting them in one of two piles. One pile is massive, while the other contains maybe a dozen books.]

What a messy library...I'll have to clean it up when I'm done!

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[ She's made her way here too, and observes him and his pile of books. ]

What are you looking for?

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Information! I need to update my memory banks.

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Sorry? Memory banks?

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That's right.

[He does not explain further as he sets another book in the bigger pile.]

I should be able to process all of this information in about four days, assuming my memory writing speed isn't limited like my essence is. Then it will take a further five days to catalogue everything properly.

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[But he's so human looking...? It's hard to consider him an AI or a robot.]

What is essence?

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[Surprise, that is exactly why he was built.]

It's in every living thing, from plants to animals to even humans. People with strong concentrations of essence can do magic~

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I've never seen anybody do magic.

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I can normally! But it's not working right now.

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What kind of magic could you cast?

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A lot of kinds! But mostly spells that make me move faster.

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That sounds really useful for getting around.

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It is~! Much faster than a horse and carriage.

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So it's not limited?

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It's only limited by my essence, but I have lots and lots of that~

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What exactly is essence?

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It's like the life force of something? Everyone has some, but most people can't use it to do magic.

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Is the life force different than blood?

Week 1, Saturday

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[Wow, that was fucked up!

Anyway he's just going to quietly collect Nozomi to lead her back to the boarding house and away from all of that mess. How is she doing?]

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[Bad! She seems present, but she also seems like she's sick to her stomach and horrified.]

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[Yeah no kidding, that was awful. Blade doesn't even have a stomach and he feels sick to it.

He will take her right to her door though, so she can at least be somewhere a little safer for now.]

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[She brings her jacket sleeve up to her eyes to wipe away the tears.]

Thank you... for walking me back. You didn't have to.

How are you feeling?

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Within expected parameters.

[A pause.]

...I don't feel things quite the same way as humans do. It makes it easier to deal with what happened.

But how are you doing? What can I do to help you?

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Right... you said something about that earlier today.

[But so much was happening and so much was said.]

I don't feel well, but I don't know.

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[His mind immediately goes through the logs of knowledge he has. Luckily by now he has learned to keep the cataloguing internal instead of saying it out loud, so it's less unnerving.]

Hmm...How about I get you some crackers and water then?