2nd Lie [Video]

[fictionalize]

[Well, here's Kumagawa looking less than his usual chipper self. Whatever could be the matter? Certainly not the worry that his violet collar might be a timebomb, right?]

「Hey, everyone, a friendly poll from your neighborhood Kumagawa: of those of you with amazing super powers, gifts, magic, psychic abilities and all those amazing things, have any of you noticed them acting any differently since you arrived here? Please respond in 140 characters or less.」

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[heavenscorpse]

I promise I won't tell.

[fictionalize]

「Really? That's great! What a good fishplantgod! I should get you some ice cream - wait, do you even eat?」

[heavenscorpse]

I like to eat! Food is delicious.

[fictionalize]

「Except when it's not. But I don't think ice cream is ever not delicious.」

[heavenscorpse]

People can be so creative with food, though.

[fictionalize]

「They can also mess it up really badly! And everyone's tastes are different.」

[heavenscorpse]

I like that about people.

[fictionalize]

「Even the really terrible ones? Wouldn't it be better if everyone was good?」

[heavenscorpse]

If everyone was good, how would you know what good was?

[fictionalize]

「If everyone was good, we wouldn't need to define it, right?」

[heavenscorpse]

So then, it wouldn't mean anything.

[fictionalize]

「It wouldn't have to. After all, ignorance is bliss, right? Everyone could just blissfully be nice to each other in a world like that.」

[heavenscorpse]

I don't like that world so much.

[fictionalize]

「So you want people to suffer and be terrible to each other?」

[heavenscorpse]

I want people to have choices.

[fictionalize]

「Even if they choose to hurt others?」

[heavenscorpse]

Even if they do that.

[fictionalize]

「So you'd prefer a world where people hurt each other by choice than one where they don't.」

[heavenscorpse]

Yes.

[fictionalize]

「So you enjoy the fact that I've had to suffer all my life then? You'd hate a world where I could have been as happy as anyone else?」

[heavenscorpse]

Oh, no, I wouldn't hate it! But it would seem.... wrong.

[fictionalize]

「So it'd be wrong if I was happy, huh?」

[heavenscorpse]

I don't mean that!

[fictionalize]

「Then what do you mean? If you think a world where everyone is happy and good is wrong, doesn't that mean you think a world where the person at the bottom is unhappy is right? And that it's wrong for them to not be?」

[heavenscorpse]

That's not what I meant...

[But she doesn't know how to explain that choice is something to be treasured, and that an eternal happiness isn't happiness to her.]