why do you build me up buttercup baby just to let me down

[intellectualrapist]

[After a rather exhausting time of however long, Erika is finally quite fine enough to walk around without any worries. Of course, she's still a little tender, but going without her corset a week or two more isn't the end of the world. It means simpler dresses and walking around outside like a normal person instead of a stand-out lolita.

Maybe for the best right now. She was generally associated with Dagon but surprisingly doesn't get many looks. And the fresh air of the park is...actually kind of nice. Not that she'll so it like that.

This is also for Zelos. Poor dear. He probably needs a break from her so she figures spending it outside might be good for her.

At the moment, she's flopped over in the grass, staring up at the sky with a quiet mind.]

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[intellectualrapist]

[From how Erika starts laughing, she agrees with the joke.] What wonderful fortune we've received then for our struggles.

[inhumanity]

Even so, we should fight some time. Not seriously, of course. I never fight friends seriously. And I wouldn't fight you while you were still at a disadvantage. [No, he would. He really would.]

[intellectualrapist]

[She snorts. Yeah no she knows he would.] I would like that. Fighting is...thrilling in its own right.

[inhumanity]

I can't decide which I like more: fighting or killing. If only they always came together! I curse you, humanity! I curse you for the weakness that makes killing you so easy!

[intellectualrapist]

I don't have much interest in the corpses I create.

[inhumanity]

I don't either, once they're dead.

[intellectualrapist]

I don't like corpses unless they're part of a mystery.

[inhumanity]

I don't know how you have any fun.

[intellectualrapist]

Murder mysteries are wonderful fun. Closed room varieties are my favourite for their beauty.

[inhumanity]

Boring. Give me something with more flowing blood.

[intellectualrapist]

You can have as much blood in a closed room as you want! That might even make it more interesting.

[inhumanity]

And then? A human killed another human. Boring. The fun finished before you got there.

[intellectualrapist]

That's why I'm a detective before anything else. Solving murders is more fun to me than doing than.

[inhumanity]

A philosophic difference! How can our friendship survive it? I'll have to kill you.

[This blatantly contradicts what he said earlier, and it can be stopped with a word[

[intellectualrapist]

Hm? But I thought you said you wouldn't kill me.

[inhumanity]

I changed my mind.

[intellectualrapist]

I'd rather stay friends with you than have you try to kill me.

[inhumanity]

I don't see why we can't do both.

[The whole point is to preserve their friendship by killing her!! God, Erika. You're so crazy.]

[intellectualrapist]

[She waves a hand.] I'm new to friendship but you don't decide to suddenly kill a friend.

[inhumanity]

But how will we reconcile our differences? [At least he is off the murder idea now]

[intellectualrapist]

Aren't differences good to help a person grow?

[inhumanity]

That's only natural, but I'm not.

[intellectualrapist]

Have you tried it enough to say for sure it can't work the same on the unnatural?

[inhumanity]

Of course! My partner and closest of all friends disagrees with me on virtually everything.

[Then why did you say you can't be friends with someone who disagrees with you]

[intellectualrapist]

[...No the brackets have a good point.]

But you said you can't be friends with a person who you disagree with.