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[strangerpeople]

FINAL TRIAL

[When the doors open, the killed also find themselves allowed into the Room of Reckoning as well. And - similar to the living - they, too, have a table, with their own names and places and sitting pillows. They, too, receive the note on their phones with a ping.

The dead, however, have something else that the living do not have.

They can see that there is someone sitting on the gold pillow by the stairs.]

Comments

[cyclicalconcept]

Well...my understanding is that it's because someone has to know how to manipulate the code, or be on the proper planes to do that. If you don't have a Reaper's Game or something like that, there's no certainty that someone exists to know how to change the code to allow for it. And...some universes don't even work that way, and souls can't be manipulated that way.

But again, there's no way to know for certain without a Reaper's Game in place.

[byanyother_name]

So not only does it depend on having a Game in place, it's also a complex process? That's understandable. Souls are complex things.

Kana-san, if I may ask... How is it possible that you were able to split yours to help create Nyaf-ya?

[cyclicalconcept]

My existence...I'm capable of having pieces of me split off, when I need it to happen. Each piece being it's own soul, because once, many of those pieces were once living creatures.

It's the best way I can explain it.

[byanyother_name]

[Once living creatures? That... Kurama isn't quite sure he understands that and some of the possibilities lead to fairly horrifying places. He shakes his head a little.]

...Is there any way you can help me understand it better?

[He knows not what he asks but is probably at least better equipped to handle it than Helena?]

[cyclicalconcept]

[A deep breath.]

I can.

[And...well. There you go, Kurama.]

[byanyother_name]

[....oh. Well, that's really just horrible in different ways. Kurama has to take a deep breath of his own, shaking his head a little.]

...I'm sorry such an important part of you was stolen away.

[cyclicalconcept]

It's not your fault.

But, like this, I'm simply an imitation of Madoka Kaname, a reflection of a will that's not with me anymore.

[byanyother_name]

You don't have to be. Kana-san... You may still have that purpose, but without that will that created you...

Don't you get to choose who to be?