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[envy_the_sinners]

[Scar's been lying low in Olivine ever since the hurricane, and he's starting to go a little stir-crazy. Being left bored with his thoughts can only end in one thing. Anon questions.]

In my time here, I have come to find that there are a great many "worlds" that are home to people who wouldn't be considered human, but experience the same depth of thought and range of emotion.

[Even he can make that conclusion, now.]

In that case, what is humanity? A measure of physical traits? A state of mind? Something into which one must be born?

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[envy_the_sinners]

Your cause is just, there is no arguing that.

But the burdens of the sinful always have a way of falling onto the shoulders of the righteous.

[bookslap]

I would not consider my duty a burden. I have lived far longer as a Shinigami than I would as a human, and I have seen the world change in ways I would not have even contemplated when I was but flesh and blood.

But I would not consider myself righteous.

[envy_the_sinners]

And why is that?

[bookslap]

There are things I have done, things I have participated in which would render me unworthy of such a status.

[envy_the_sinners]

I see.

And yet you continue this mission of cleansing these lost souls.

[bookslap]

It's my job to do so. It would be treason for me to not perform this duty.

[envy_the_sinners]

Treason? Then it is a governmental obligation?

[bookslap]

Military duty. All Shinigami are part of the Gotei 13. Our duty is to cleanse Hollows and protect all souls. To refuse this after we have been chosen... is unthinkable.

{wow nanao way to make this sound super dramatic}

[envy_the_sinners]

That does not sound like the kind of obligation to be left to the military.

[Military forces just kill people, duuuhhh]

[bookslap]

If we were an ordinary military force, perhaps I too would be skeptical of this. As we are not, I see no problem with this.

{Human militaries can kill each other. Shinigami militaries merely kill what has already died.}

[envy_the_sinners]

I suppose you are right.

I have never known a military to be good for anything but slaughter.

[bookslap]

...then I am sorry for your past negative experiences.

{nanao wat r u doing}