catchall asa mitaka

[residentmerc]

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[residentmerc]

'Course they are. [ i cant believe sephiroth is the materia devil or whatever ] Any way for you guys to fight back?

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[he's the ex who keeps spamming your voicemail and stalking your facebook feed to show up where you are devil.]

Devil Hunters kill devils to send them back to Hell all the time. But they just end up making their way back to Earth eventually, so... Not really.

[residentmerc]

No one's found a way to ... block the door to hell or whatever?

[ terrible. useless. ]

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I don't think so. Besides, that's not the main problem. A devil who dies on Earth is reincarnated in Hell. But when they die again in Hell... They reincarnate on Earth.

[residentmerc]

So they can just... come back whenever they want?

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Unfortunately.

[residentmerc]

... That sucks. Least the fiends back home don't usually make it into cities.

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-—You have fiends, too?

[UNFORTUNATELY, CHAINSAW MAN,]

[residentmerc]

[ ah, ]

Yeah. World's always had monsters around.

[halved]

Ah... But you said they're not usually making it into the cities. That's good.

[residentmerc]

Yeah. It happens sometimes, but they can get people to take care of them when it does. It's traveling in between where it can be a problem. They're not above attacking vehicles.

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[slowly nods...]

Or stealing them. Are your cities far from each other?

[residentmerc]

[ pauses at that ] They're not smart enough to steal vehicles, usually. More like a kill everyone onboard type of thing.

Yeah. Not a lot of settlements too close to one another. Least a couple day's walk between 'em.

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... Huh.

[just. huh.]

Sounds kind of lonely.

[residentmerc]

[ huh right back, ]

Lonely? [ he doesn't know if he'd use that word to describe it. hm. ] S'not so bad if you're not from out too far in the countryside.

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I mean... [she shrugs.] It sounds like it'd be easy to get stuck in the city you grew up in unless you have a way to travel between settlements without getting attacked by monsters, so...

[residentmerc]

It's doable. Easiest to pull off if you want to go to the big ones, though.

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Really? How come?

[residentmerc]

Bigger the city, bigger the appeal, the more transport available. A lot more people want to go to a place where they can get job or go to a resort than a backwater town hidden in the middle of a jungle.

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Oh. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense actually.

[residentmerc]

Yeah. Communications have still been set up enough nowhere's too isolated anyway these days.

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So you still have landlines and cellphones, and stuff like that?

[residentmerc]

Yeah, we've got phones.

[ do they have... landlines... idk ]