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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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[meaningdies]

I was basically hired to cause havoc - I made the Demon Summoning Program.

Well in any given show or comic or whatever if Tokyo Tower doesn't blow up, you're doing it wrong in terms of destruction. Not that it blew up during the Lockdown. Wrong part of Tokyo.

[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.