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[anshininsan]

Ah, it's been a while since I came here! And I see there are quite a few people here now, too, eh? You've really gotten fancy, Eureka-chan!

Well then, I won't hold back from introducing myself. Call me Anshin'in-san, if you will! I'm certain we'll all be friends here. Even if you don't know me now, you'll certainly know about me soon enough. ♥

By the way, I heard there are also some people from my universe here? Hey, Medaka-chan! Come out and play with me, why don't you? (´･ω･`) Before my playplace is done, I want someone to get rid of this boredom with ~~~~

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[anshininsan]

Well, love doesn't really have to be romantic. It's platonic love! After all, with all of that dedication and sacrifice, you really can't say that it's just "friendship"! Even though WSJ makes a point about friends doing that, I really don't think that such a thing in real life is possible ~ .

Anyway, that's really cool! Philip-kun's pretty amazing ~ . I don't know if I could do anything like that. ~ To me, people are replaceable, after all.

[riderpedia]

I guess... I've never really looked too far into 'love'. It never seemed the sort of appropriate topic to research. But I guess if love can be that way, maybe what Shoutarou and I have is love. We're not just friends. He's my partner and my family. He has been as far back as I can remember.

[Granted, his memories only go back three years.]

When you become attached to someone, they become irreplaceable.

[anshininsan]

Well, that' what love is! There's familial love, platonic love, romantic love, sexual love, admiring love, etc. So it'd make sense for something like that, right?

[ smile. ]

Is that so? But I've replaced them many times.

[riderpedia]

Then I guess... what Shoutarou and I have is love, just.. not the sort I'm used to thinking about.

If you're able to replace someone easily in your life, then they didn't really mean that much, I think. I'd never be able to replace Shoutarou or Akiko or Terui.

In fact, I tried to replace Shoutarou with Terui once and it was just a terrible mistake.

[anshininsan]

Mm, well there are lots of loves, and people often mistake it for the romantic love, so that's to be expected! But in Greece, there are three kinds of love, did you know?

Ah, that's true I suppose. I really can't care less about the people around me - or about humanity, really. But that sounds rather like a horribly funny time!

[riderpedia]

That makes sense.

It was my mother's idea... She thought Terui would be a better partner for me. And I thought that I was hurting Shoutarou... But in the end, with Shoutarou is where I belong.

[anshininsan]

How sweet!

And this is true love, I'm telling you! True, familial and platonic love.

[riderpedia]

I guess so. I'm glad it is. Pretty much all of my memories have Shoutarou.

[anshininsan]

Philip-kun is really something else! And you should be glad about it, it's really quite a happy thing.

[riderpedia]

I've lead an interesting life...

Or is it lives?

But I'm the same person each time so it's more like stopping and starting instead of starting over. I think it all counts as the same life.

[anshininsan]

I think so, too. As someone who has lived for three trillion years, it's not really starting over but going on the same run, like you found out that you still have a little life on your HP bar left.

[riderpedia]

It's more like a repeated use of Phoenix Downs...

[anshininsan]

I guess you can say that, too! Or the dragon balls being used to bring you back to life?

[riderpedia]

No, you can only do that once.

I'm on my third.

[anshininsan]

That you can remember? Phoenix downs it is, then.

[riderpedia]

I don't remember the first one very well, but I know it;s only three total.

[anshininsan]

I see. Well, in any case, you should try to work hard so that those phoenix downs aren't wasted for nothing! Although I can tell you you won't have to use any of those in this world, since Eureka-chan has your back. ~

[riderpedia]

I've done my best. So long as I make it back to Shoutarou.

But it's good to know I won't have to worry about a 4th, since I wasn't really supposed to make it back after the 3rd.

[anshininsan]

Hmm, right!

Well, dying for a final time would certainly be a relief. I, Anshin'in-san, can appreciate that.

[riderpedia]

It was rather interesting being dead... Knowing the feeling of not being alive. It was odd, being sentient but not alive.

[anshininsan]

Hmmm.... Something like that, I'm not really sure I want it! By wanting to die, I don't want to exist anymore - I've already gone through numerous things like Heaven and Hell already after all!

Still, I guess it's odd!

[riderpedia]

Not existing... I've never given much thought to that. I suppose if I had ceased existing, I wouldn't have had time to.

It was a bit strange dying so many times though.

[anshininsan]

Or the existence to, for that matter!

Yeah, that sounds strange. It gets really surreal, right? Like, how would you even know if you're actually alive - or if you're actually just dead right now?

[riderpedia]

Well, I have a body right now, and I know I didn't when I was dead. So that seems a good indicator.

[anshininsan]

....

Your afterlife is weird!