egodist: (✧ take my hand)
scien brofiise。 ([personal profile] egodist) wrote 2024-02-28 03:39 pm (UTC)

[he nods in understanding]

It is a reasonable technology to be banned. [and because he's not polite enough to ignore the feelings that he gets from her (even though they don't quite process all the way for him, disappearing before they reach full strength)] You clearly have a personal investment in it.

Then I'll answer that the Reliver process was developed specifically because the residents of Arpéchéle all die by the time they reach age 23. I invented as a temporary measure until I discovered the cause of this so-called curse. Relivers cannot coexist with each other because the procedure is for the corpse to be brought to the Institute before we create the Reliver. This is to prevent, as you call it, 'fighting like idiots'.

My case is an exception, as the country would fall apart without me. I've been assassinated via abduction and murder before, after all. As such, a new Reliver may be created once I have disappeared for a long enough amount of time. The reason I cannot exist with another me is because the power struggle would be too annoying to deal with, and bystanders who have nothing to do with it could get caught in the mess. It is easier for myself to accept that, as the outdated vessel, I should die.

[i wish that he could have even the slightest flicker of emotion about this - about any of this. but no, there isn't so much as a ripple of uncertainty or anxiety]

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