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[angryyoungvamp]

You've reached Maugris, or at least his phone. I can't pick up at the moment, probably because I'm asleep, busy, or don't have reception. Leave a message and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. In an emergency, use the network - if you still can't raise me there, you'll probably find someone else to help.

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[angryyoungvamp]

Why would you even want a Demon Summoning Program? [And since this is all text he can blithely pretend not to be trying to figure out whether this is a program where you learn to summon demons or a computer program that does it for you.]

It's not always blowing it up. Sometimes it just collapses. [Maugris isn't a big monster movie guy, but he saw Mothra once.]

[meaningdies]

I was commissioned for it, actually, by a cult who worshiped a powerful demon. They wanted to help him win the Throne of Bel, which is basically the power that makes someone King of Demons. He didn't win in the end, incidentally.

[angryyoungvamp]

Mm. Shame after all that work, but probably for the bests. Anybody with a cult is going to be a pain in the ass to deal with.

[meaningdies]

Usually, yes. They were helpful for setting up all the right variables for things, though.

[angryyoungvamp]

Well, yeah. It's easy to manipulate people when they've got a really obvious lever like "fanatical demon worshiper". Or "obsessed with magical power", or something.

[Or "hero complex", maybe?]

[meaningdies]

Indeed. It's a little amusing how simple it is, actually. Then again, I've had a long time to practice.

[angryyoungvamp]

Well, you might not be a vampire, but you sure act like them.

[Another advantage of text: this "Cain" can't actually tell the tone Maugris is thinking that sentence in.

Probably.]

[meaningdies]

I assume that's not a compliment. It doesn't matter. One day you too might be old and cynical and tired of dealing with the same thing over and over.

[angryyoungvamp]

Not really. Though the tricks are definitely helpful; I wouldn't have been able to do half the good I managed back home without being able to manipulate mortal society. I know it kind of makes me a hypocrite, and I can't say I like it, but I have to do what I can.

... This truth thing is a serious pain in the ass.

[meaningdies]

I don't tend to lie anyway. I just normally don't give out this much information.

[angryyoungvamp]

Fair enough.

So, do you have a name besides "Cain"? I can only guess that would cause some comment, especially in Japan.

[meaningdies]

The name I was given when I was born this time was Naoya. It's as good as any other name for me.

[angryyoungvamp]

"Born this time"? So, what, serial reincarnation? That's one way to end up immortal, I guess.

[meaningdies]

Yes. Every time I'm killed, I'm born into a new body with all of my previous memories.

[angryyoungvamp]

Having the previous memories is kind of the important part for that, I guess. I never understood what the difference between being reborn or not is with the normal kind. Never really could wrap my head around Buddhism.

[meaningdies]

It's generally a matter of old souls with wiped or locked memories versus totally new souls.