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[With his first week of school in Luceti over, Kurt has taken advantage of the day off to make something a little special. A pizza, in fact. It's for a special little friend he made, so given how ridiculous this is, he's done his best to make the pizza when Kitty wasn't at home to call him out for it. Once it's done, he'll be appearing (quite literally) at building 4, teleporting to the sixth floor to knock on the door of Maes Hughes. Hopefully your daughter warned you that she ordered a pizza for lunch.

After putting up with Brigade shenanigans and generally hanging around the plaza area, he'll even make a voice post. Crazy, innit? This is mostly in response to seeing a certain person claiming to be a demon. Something that... struck him rather odd.]

When you think of a demon, what exactly do they look like in your mind? And [a hesitant pause here] what would you do if you saw one like that?

[LATER after being bombarded with how cool demons are, Kurt says something over the journals that will elicit less freaky responses:]

School wasn't so bad here. I can't believe we actually get homework though. What happens if we fail?

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Demon is what people use to refer to those beings that are basically an embodiment of every evil and negative emotion, thought or act in the world. A demon doesn't have a specific form, it can be an animal or a person. Even if it's an entity of primary evil it doesn't have to look evil, in fact it probably looks the opposite in order to lure and trap good people.

That's the theory, at least. In reality in a place like this, "demon" is nothing but another race basically. Being evil or not doesn't matter here for that.

[Eheh, that first part leaves him a little unnerved. Even so...]

In my world, demons are said to be the angels who aspired to be greater than God, and so they turned away from Him, becoming wicked and evil instead. What most people believe them to look like is... fairly simple.

That theory also exists in my world, however it's nothing but what I said, only with prettier wording. The existence of a God can't be proved in my world, thus the nature of that God can't be proved either, it can just be assumed. Because people turn to the idea of a God in order to find comfort, God is nothing but the embodiment of every good and positive emotion in the world. Eternal bliss, eternal love, eternal happiness, eternal patience, eternal kindness.

However the idea of such a being existing and giving birth to humans leaves to debate why people aren't like that and where does evil and negativity come from. Thus people create the figure of a demon. The idea of them being formerly angels is just to convince themselves that it's natural that good people turn to be bad people, and to support the idea that the origin of everything was God, the pure and good being, instead of the other way around or admitting a balance between both sides.

[A pause.]

People tend to be fairly simple when they think about something they want to use as a scapegoat.

[He really... has no interest in making this a religious discussion. Especially since it's very clear what she believes is far, far different than him. Ultimately, he decides to withdraw. Arguing religion with a person from another world is a lost cause. After all, in her universe, God might not exist at all.]

I see.

[He was the one to bring in the religious aspect of it, though with demons it's hard to avoid it. Luka herself doesn't really "believe" in anything, she just knows her facts, and her facts state that a demon is nothing to worry about just by its name or appearance.]

Are you surprised about the kind of demons that can be found here?

I only know of the one who declared herself to be one on the network. She didn't seem very demonic at all.

People rarely are what they seem to be anyway, actions are what create a person.

[She chuckles a bit.]

Did you expect some kind of monster as a demon?

It does seem to be what people commonly expect.

And what kind of monster would that be? People can label as monsters even cars if they aren't used to them.

Yeah, that's true. Anything people don't know or understand scares them. Or at least, that's how it was. This place isn't even remotely like home. [Especially since half the people seem to think demons are rad.]

Well, we have more important things to puzzle about than about someone showing around being different or whatever. We don't even really know, much less understand, the situation we are in, and irrational fear can hardly help.

Right. Whatever is keeping us here is the big concern. [And he's not even sure what that is. Confusing blue guy, yeesh.]

Well, that depends on what you want that "whatever" to be, actually. An answer has been provided, though it's worth as a real answer is debatable.

Yeah. With so many things out of place here, it's hard to know who you can even trust around here.

With the record regarding memory manipulation you can't even fully trust yourself. Though because the provided answer came from the Malnosso it's even more logical to bring to debate the truth behind that answer.

There's too many reasons why this place shouldn't even exist. I have to believe it does... and that I'm myself. Otherwise I have nothing.

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