PC: Kyoko

[westedge]

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[westedge]

You've never done anything like this before, have you? Like. Not...dying, obviously, but the whole team competition thing.

[factoring]

No. Nothing like this. I have an employee, but we don't go entering competitions.

[westedge]

Just the one employee?

[factoring]

The ghost recently decided to pass on.

[westedge]

[ ....... ]

If it was a ghost, wouldn't they have already passed on in the first place...?

[factoring]

If something is a ghost that means they're sticking around. Once they disappear and resolve their business they've fully passed on.

[westedge]

And then what are the chances of a ghost coming back after they've passed on?

[factoring]

For that one? None. They've managed to tie up their loose ends.

[westedge]

And...ghosts in general? Or is that the only one you've encountered?

[factoring]

I've only met one.

[If we don't count things like Ghostmon and Soulmon and the like.]

[westedge]

[ hmmm. hm hm. ]

Well. I can't say you're missing much, so there's that. [ is that a good thing? debatable. ]

[factoring]

You've met a few?

[westedge]

[ he makes a face about it. ]

It wasn't by choice, trust me.

[factoring]

Ghosts just seem to happen, hm?

[westedge]

I wasn't even sure I believed they were real up until that point, but...yeah. Ghosts just seem to happen. [ ... ] At least we're not ghosts, here. The shadow people around us aren't really either.

[factoring]

So what exactly are we? And what are they?

[westedge]

Uh...we're dead souls and they're like living people on a different plane. Since we're in the UG, there's like...a disconnect? I guess. Between the two of them. The reapers implied they had to do some stuff to even get the employees here to acknowledge us.

[factoring]

[ Sips on her horrible coffee and considers this. ]

Dead souls don't count as ghosts for the purposes of the game. But I think I understand well enough.

[westedge]

At least one of us does. [ a joke. ] It's a little hard to really accept since our bodies are obviously sort of here even if they aren't real, so we're at a weird in-between. But if something happens to us, we're pretty much banished.

[ like ghosts. but they aren't ghosts, so. ]

[factoring]

It's my first time dying, but it's all strange to think about.

[Something in between the binary of alive and dead. It's not all ones and zeroes during the Game.]

Ghosts can peacefully move on, but that doesn't seem like much of an option for us.

[westedge]

Right? It is. I feel like I should be more freaked out, and maybe I am but like in shock because it doesn't really register? I don't know.

[ but she raises a good point. ]

You think it's possible something...non-peaceful will happen to us if we're erased?

[factoring]

"You are permitted to erase one another on Thursday nights"... really doesn't seem peaceful to me.

[westedge]

Oh. Yeah, that part. [ he wasn't sure if she meant something else, honestly. ] Makes you wonder what that means. If it's like...you can just do it, or if the person can fight back or what. Since it's a competition.

[factoring]

I don't know for certain, but it seems like they should be able to fight back. It doesn't say anything about the aggressor getting an advantage.

[westedge]

There's also the part where there's forty of us. Don't you think if someone erased somebody else at least one of us would notice something?