[It really is a disconnect. For how human he looks and acts, and how familiar the general idea of a spirit is to so many people here - he's really not human at all. A mirror of humanity in many ways, but completely disconnected from the threads that make up its core.]
Hm... I've never thought about it, honestly.
[It'd be like a hyperintelligent squid wondering what life as a human would be like... Why even consider that when being a squid is clearly better??]
[It sounds genuine, and he picks himself up again from his slouchy posture. Or at least corrects it to a... mildly less slouchy slouch. Considering he did see that memory, he's not overly-concerned about his Clearly Not A Human-ness putting her off.
Then, with a little twinkle of amusement in his demon eye:]
Wow, you think so? It's a good thing I don't get bored often, then. Hard to do that in a place with basically no rules and new things happening every week, especially!
[It's true, Mahito owns his own terrible nature, for whatever good that... does... But he laughs a little, raising his shoulders.]
It's you, though. Ah, but I'm a little surprised... Things went downhill reeeally fast for that guy, huh?
["I'm a little surprised", says Mahito, who knows how terrible humans can be better than just about anyone else, who is also constantly expecting them to be at their worst at all times.]
[Honestly she's valid, very funny. He also doesn't seem particularly keen on continuing to discuss Fukuda in particular, because Fukuda The Person is not interesting to him so much as The Various Human Conditions That Make Up Fukuda.]
It's kind of interesting how some people do that, you know? Just keep digging themselves deeper and deeper instead of trying to pull themselves back up.
[Which he naturally means in many more ways than just "this dude wouldn't try to exonerate himself from murder crimes".]
If he noticed that, he doesn't make mention of it, though! There's maybe a little bit of a curious look, but it lets it go without comment.]
Huh. Yeah, that seems to be the case... Still weird to watch it happen. But I guess people are just kind of weird and hard to understand in general, you know?
[He says, despite having an innate understanding of (all the worst parts of) humans.]
People can be both very predictable and unpredictable. I don't know if you'll come to a full understanding because of what you are, but it doesn't hurt to try.
[ Or it could hurt. It could hurt very much, but she doesn't know if that'll be the case for Mahito. ]
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Hm... I've never thought about it, honestly.
[It'd be like a hyperintelligent squid wondering what life as a human would be like... Why even consider that when being a squid is clearly better??]
Any new experience is a valuable one, though.
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[ It's here that it's more and more apparent just how separate and different he is. It's not something that Medb dislikes or weirded out by.
It's not as if she hasn't caused people to become more inhuman before. He saw enough in her memory earlier this week. ]
I feel as if you'd be driven to doing something terrible if you ever get bored.
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[It sounds genuine, and he picks himself up again from his slouchy posture. Or at least corrects it to a... mildly less slouchy slouch. Considering he did see that memory, he's not overly-concerned about his Clearly Not A Human-ness putting her off.
Then, with a little twinkle of amusement in his demon eye:]
Wow, you think so? It's a good thing I don't get bored often, then. Hard to do that in a place with basically no rules and new things happening every week, especially!
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You shouldn't agree so easily to that. If I were someone else, you'd get the Fukuda treatment.
[ Well, probably something better since Mahito acknowledges his inhumanness and terribleness, and that makes a distinct difference. ]
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It's you, though. Ah, but I'm a little surprised... Things went downhill reeeally fast for that guy, huh?
["I'm a little surprised", says Mahito, who knows how terrible humans can be better than just about anyone else, who is also constantly expecting them to be at their worst at all times.]
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He made things worse for himself. It's as much his own fault as the rest of us.
[ Fukuda himself is an example of how terrible humans can be. ]
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It's kind of interesting how some people do that, you know? Just keep digging themselves deeper and deeper instead of trying to pull themselves back up.
[Which he naturally means in many more ways than just "this dude wouldn't try to exonerate himself from murder crimes".]
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They're idiots. That's all there is to it. If they want to sign their own death sentence, let them.
If they can't realize the depths of their despair, they deserve to sink.
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Haha, harsh.
[HE SAYS, "HAHA"ING ABOUT IT. It's pretty entertaining though okay, look, he loves Medb for being brutally honest.]
Not like you're wrong, though! People can really talk themselves in and out of all kinds of things, can't they?
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There's something distant in her gaze for half a second before she shrugs, and it's gone. ]
Sometimes, that's what keeps people going: delusion or denial or whatever reasoning that fits their needs.
It's easy to fall into a spiral.
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If he noticed that, he doesn't make mention of it, though! There's maybe a little bit of a curious look, but it lets it go without comment.]
Huh. Yeah, that seems to be the case... Still weird to watch it happen. But I guess people are just kind of weird and hard to understand in general, you know?
[He says, despite having an innate understanding of (all the worst parts of) humans.]
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[ Or it could hurt. It could hurt very much, but she doesn't know if that'll be the case for Mahito. ]
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I guess you're right about that. [No it could definitely hurt very much, at least for anyone semi normal...] Nothing to do but give it a try, then!