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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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Ah... perhaps. What would you say of people claiming that there are demons here that are not evil. Do you think it might be a deception?

Perhaps deception, or perhaps like many things, there exceptions. It would not be beyond the imagination to say that there are demons with kindness in their souls just as there are men with evil in their hearts and minds. I have seen much in my journey, yet I cannot say I have seen everything. I merely speak of what I have witnessed.

Yeah, I guess that's true. [It still... doesn't fit with anything he believes. But in this place, where nothing is right, maybe that doesn't matter.] It's just hard to imagine, that's all.

That feeling is understandable. One's experiences and the sights they behold in their world often forge the way they view and see things in life. However, it is key that one keeps an open-mind to possibilities rather than close oneself off. To close one's mind and heart is to become blind to the wonders around them.

[He gives a soft laugh. This is all ironic advice for him, really.]

Don't worry, if there's one thing I'm good at, it's keeping an open mind.

Please, allow me to ask you the same: what is a demon in your mind and what is your reaction towards them?

[If there was anything Jack now constantly had a curiosity for, it was what the worlds of other Luceti dwellers were like.]

A demon... is a being of pure evil who tempts men into sin.

Is that something you were taught or something you witnessed in person? [He knew nothing of this boy's world, but something drove Jack to help him find what he was seeking in the questions.]

It's what I was taught... and what I believe.

Are you troubled perhaps from the idea that demons do exist in this world but they do not match what you have come to believe in, that some walk about down the street or shop in the markets the same way that you or I would?

Yes. Demons are not born. It was their choice to fall from grace. That people claim that there are demons who are innocent of wrong doing... why would they even call themselves that?

Hmm, I see your dilemma. But see it from this view: there are worlds beyond this one, yours, and mine. Perhaps in another world, demons are born as a race and people rather than being a forsaken being filled with evil and hatred. To say one's world is a falsehood is to paint an entire people with a very dark brush.
[The future had been kind to the samurai in its lessons and broadening of his mind, but he knew it could not be the same for all people of all worlds.]
The only way in the end to realize what is truth is to know a person and see through their eyes; to hear them speak, and watch them live. Would you wish for you or your kin to be branded as evil and despicable simply on first sight, just from what one assumes without even taking the chance to see who they truly are inside?

[... oh the irony of hearing the kind of advice that is usually given to normal people for them to accept Kurt for not being a demon, just looking like one. He doesn't like the idea of just trusting 'demons' like this. Appearance is one thing, but nature is another. Their claims to be benevolent could easily be deception. Even so, whoever this person was, he was right. For this world, at least.]

... no. I already know what that's like, all too well.

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