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At the rate these monsters arrive, before long there will be too many of them for me to effectively keep them within the caves. As such, I would appreciate it if those of you who can fight would help out your fellows by venturing into the caves and killing a few monsters. Naturally, you would be rewarded for this.

Additionally, the state of the city itself is quite poor, and I am unable to waste energy on improving it. Anyone who might wish to assist on that point will find supplies in the shops for a period of time. Any help there will not go unrewarded either.

You do not have to participate, and I have no doubt that some of you will refuse to for petty reasons, but to those who do - you have my thanks.

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Fear is responsible for you being here, not I. By 'petty reasons' I mean the fact that most of you choose to blame me for things I had no hand in, while discounting everything I do.

That's it?

Am I going to hear the same story if I ask someone else who's been stuck here for a while? Think long and hard before you answer.

Likely you'll hear them blame me for as many things as they can think of. If you bother to take the time to ask further questions, though, you'll discover that I am not the one responsible for any of the things that anger them. I'm simply the most visible target.

"It wasn't me, it was the others," huh? Sorry, but that's a little hard to swallow. You've got just as much to gain from having us here as Fear and Rage and the others do.

[Will Ichigo ever learn the full list of revived gods in Hadriel? ...unlikely.]

Hey, do you mind if I switch to video? This is something I want to ask you face to face. You guys supposedly look human, so you can do it, right?

Edited 2016-07-27 22:03 (UTC)

[He does switch, as requested.]

I am also the one who loses the most having you here. What is your question?

[OK, cool. So that's what you look like. Good to know.

His face is serious, though, when he asks the question:]

Are you actually planning to let any of us go?

I'm not the one who brought you here, and none of us are able to send you home. I would like to, eventually.

[...he doesn't feel like he's being lied to. Maybe that's naive of him, and maybe gods are just harder to get a read on, but Ichigo's not picking up on any dishonesty. He'll take it with a grain of salt, but for now, he's not going to be openly hostile.]

I heard you were hoping one of the gods you're bringing back would know how to do it. Is that true?

And even if they do, what if you wind up the only god who wants to send us home? What happens if the other gods like using our feelings to get stronger too much to let us leave?

It is. Sorrow knows far more about the Door than I could ever hope to.

As for the rest, I have no answer for you. I believe in general they would be in favor of sending you home once I have brought back the former residents here. They were far more amenable than you.

...wait, so you can bring normal people back to life, too? Not just feelings-gods?

[who has two thumbs and hasn't been told about the revival mechanic yet]

Of course. Did no one tell you? I bring back everyone who dies here.

[Do humans just not talk to each other or something??]

Seriously?! If we get killed, you just -- bring us back? Just like that?

[Whoa. That is a hell of a thing to know. A part of him hopes it doesn't wind up useful, but a more realistic part of him knows it might be.]

Not just like that. It requires energy and effort on my part. Please attempt to die as few times as possible.

Like the power and the food and stuff. Yeah, I get it.

--but if that's the case, you should give the clinic better medical supplies. It probably takes less energy to give them IVs and a defibrillator than it does to bring someone back to life.

What is a defibrillator?

Huh? Oh, right, you're an alien or something, so I guess you wouldn't know. It's a machine you can use to start a human heart. Basically, if someone's heart stops beating while they're still alive, you use a controlled electrical shock to get it working again.

I see. It works even when someone is bleeding to death? That would be useful.

I mean....you've still got to stop the bleeding. Otherwise, they'll die anyway.

Is there a machine that stops bleeding like that?

Yeah, sure. It's called a cauterization machine. Do you need me to explain how they work, too...?

Yes. I've never heard of that.

--look, we are getting way off topic. We'd need a sterile operating space for the cauterization machine to be useful anyway, and on top of that, we'd need a trauma surgeon to use it, and I don't think we have one.

The stuff the clinic could actually use is bandages treated with stuff that clots blood and an x-ray machine.

[There is a pause in which he realizes that yes, he'll have to explain that, too.]

....which is a machine that gives off light on a wavelength past ultraviolet that goes through skin and muscle but not bone or metal. You put the machine on one side of an injury and a kind of paper that changes color when the light hits it on the other, and you get a picture of what a person's insides look like. It's good for figuring out how to fix broken bones or where a bullet is if someone gets shot.

[He frowns.]

Sophisticated machinery is not something I, or any of the others, can make easily. It's not impossible, but it would be very difficult. Why not simply use magic? There are those with my blessing in the city, and they can heal such injuries easily.

Yeah, but whoever has it isn't exactly making themselves easy to find. I've got no idea who's got it and who doesn't, so if I get hurt, I'm not going to look for someone with magic, I'm going to go to the clinic.

I guess you could just give the clinic staff blessings, but...

...look, where I come from, becoming a doctor isn't easy. It takes a lot of time and a lot of work to get good enough at it to do it right. The people who volunteer at the clinic want to use what they can do to help people. Otherwise, they wouldn't be doing it for free like that. They don't need to rely on your powers, and I don't think they'd want to. They'd just do a better job with better tools.

[He takes a breath.]

What would I have to trade? For bandages treated with anticoagulants, or for an x-ray machine?

The bandages would not be so difficult, but I don't think there is anything you could trade me that would be enough for a 'x-ray machine'. That would be very difficult to make. For the bandages, I would ask for hopeful memories. Perhaps ones for each five bandages would be sufficient - from you or anyone else.

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