Karma kept eating as Lilith was amazed at the amount of food " Aren't you going to be too full ? " " You have no idea how hungry infernals are " "is this what you mean by young kids should eat to grow ?"
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"No I was just feeling hungry you are much younger than me overall" " Aren't you supposed to be doing some work at this time of the day ? " " You are right but since Cain will only attack Rochester at night after we can locate his location I'll have to work on other things like getting that flaming sword . "
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" You already guessed that the sword is the herald of war's weapon ? " " The reason for war is division and what does that better than a sword " " Well I did think the four horsemen were present before I just didn't think they were the real revelation because God's throne has yet to ascend the world "
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Lilith takes a bite as Karma said " So you don't even know when the real revelation is ? " " Am I drunk right now ? " " No I didn't order any alcohol "
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Karma used his hands to grab a slab of meat as Lilith watched with a tired expression " I feel like I need therapy after watching my children nearly getting mauled " " Aren't they still alive ? " " Yes but you know it's in between watching a horror movie and real life "
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" Hard to watch and with first-hand experience " Karma grabs a glass of avocado shake and continues eating " So got any recommendations ? "
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" I'm not that weak to go to therapy because I didn't have parents not like other kids in the first place plus you still haven't given me the teachings of Nephalem " " I'm getting there " Karma smiled as he used the scroll Lilith .
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The scroll dissolves after Karma claims Lilith's property and rank " Now all you have to do is follow me to where the Nephalem lives " " Sure I must have to undergo some kind of training in using two different forces "
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Lilith sighs " but honestly I don't have much expectations for this " " you will have to though , the nephalem's are very powerful because they are the perfect balance between an angel and demon "
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" Sounds like humans " " Yes but Nephalem has much earlier exposure you should know a sapling is easier to bend than a grown tree and so the Nephalem are better users of both grace and miasma " " and what is the benefit of having opposing forces ? Is it something like the yin and yang logic in evil there is good blabla ? "
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Lilith takes a bit of food as she answers " Well it's like being able to use darkness and light at the same time , They are certainly stronger than the Nephilim " " The offspring of angel and humans ? " " Well yeah you can have a Nephilim as long as you don't become an angel or demon when you die "
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Karma was surprised as he has been under the assumption that humans automatically become either angel or demons " So you don't automatically turn into a demon or angel ? "
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" No not exactly but you can turn from an angel to a human the same may apply to a demon as long as they clear their angelic and demonic vestiges from their soul "
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" Huh so angelic and demon vestiges have to do with your merits and grace " " Yeah Also you could say the same for Cambion offspring of demon and human " " Sounds a lot like those children of satan movies where they are used to open gateways to hell "
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" Oh yeah Cambions can do that it highly depends on whether the human parent was a woman or man and whether they are in the living realm or haven't died " " I don't get what that means "
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"Cambions born from a human woman while they have yet to die appear extremely human they are inherently evil by nature but some Cambions are raised well to not have that or somehow suppress it " " I guess good parenting does matter the most " " Yes why do you think my children are more well off on their own than the angels ? "
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Karma snickered and Lilith continues " But anything outside having a living human mother means they just appear to be a half demon and half human soul you can't say they are as strong as the Nephalem but they are as strong as the Nephilim and even more mentally stable "
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" Yeah , it's like angels are the real clinically insane between demons and humans " " Yes that's true that's probably one reason to condemn the two N's " Karma shrugs his shoulder cause he doesn't care about why they are hated .
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" But you know you probably will have to look for the Nephilim after all you have a human soul " Karma thinks about it while eating weighing the cost and result .
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" Nah I don't really need that " " Why ? With your spirit , you would definitely be strong enough that if you were to get the teachings of using one's spirit you could replace all physical attacks with spiritual ones "
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Karma looks at her and thinks about it " Hmm that's tempting so are these teachings supposed to be in heaven ? " the two stare at each other for a while as Lilith nods " So much for empowering the human spirit " " It's only called that because humans have it hard "
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Karma was interested to listen " Exactly what do you mean by that ? " " Those who remain faithful to god have great human spirits but they can't compare with those who earned everything on their own also such human spirits don't live in heaven because they don't believe in god "
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" Is it because they don't believe in god in the first place " Karma joked " You may make it sound like a joke but that is the real source of human spirit ... relying on oneself to fight against the tribulations of life whether it be our peaceful world or a war like wasteland "
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Hearing such tribulations Karma couldn't help but compare his " So where are they ? " " They are very close to the death department or the reapers because they want to guard their descendants "
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Karma thinks about Mihr and then turns to Lilith " Do they have any teachings ? " " They don't actually it's why they are so divided kinda like college students when they graduate because it is only when you die that you are capable of using your spirit " " Is it because life should be hard to have a strong spirit ? "
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" Yes it's why good parenting is very important , They only call it the human spirit because humans have the hardest kind of life " " You said that twice already " " It's not without reason though back then humans could live up to 800 years but now it's 80-100 years "
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' I wonder if Reed would have a strong spirit having a giant friend by his side might make him have a similar situation as having god by your side ' they continue eating as Lilith thinks about her previous goal .
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' It used to be putting these two against each other but now it feels more and more dangerous that monster coming in and him talking about the end of times where god's kingdom comes to earth while it is being prepared '
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Lilith wonders if Karma knew of anything and thinks about the giant creature Karma mentioned that is likely connected to his lineage ' A guardian maybe but if it is what kind of guardian would it be ? A demon that demands human sacrifices ? '
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There were a few families before but it seems these families were completely overpowered by the Count family ' The clans of witches and sages also had to hide from the influence that the Count family bought '
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Lilith recalls some artifacts that were completely erased from existence in case another Reed Count appears to take them ' Let's see the soul stone made from breaking a deal with a demon so that the witches could unlock the powers of the spirit tempered by demons which is now being used to animate corpses and as an alternative revival '
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" Say are there any hidden artifacts the Count didn't know of " Lilith was disappointed that Karma already guessed the part about hiding certain artifacts " I didn't think you would come to that conclusion but I'll have you know despite being the mother of demons I am part of a clan of witches "
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Karma smirked " Really ? I understand you are technically still a human not an angel that fell from grace . So these witches must be hiding somewhere wanna tell me so I can support them ? "
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" As if , these witches are already functionally immortal and I am making sure they keep living I can't say they will get along with my demon children "
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They both smiled as they were tempted to make a deal " I see I bet they would also like to be able to protect themselves from external threats to life " " They can kill others with guns I'm sure you know that much "
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" Then whatever happened for the witches to become functionally immortal but still hide their presence ? " Lilith continues listening as Karma continues " Do they have to hunt those with grace or is it sins ? Do they give demons money , food , or anything to get their immortality ? "
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" Sounds like you were very interested in making a deal with demons ? " " It's just all the fun games you can play at home that makes demon contracts so fun you know . Contracts like letting the demon devour their souls once they die , keep hunting angels everyday , bring monthly sacrifices either innocents or criminals "
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Karma takes a slice of apple " Or find a loophole in the contract , So Lilith is it like you fulfill an inevitable prophecy ? Like all humans will eventually die so all humans simply uploaded their minds into a different species and fulfill it ? "
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" Trying to get information out of me is useless " he chuckles listening to it " Not at all cause you see even though I don't believe in the supernatural before I got bored and was interested in hunting such things "
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Lilith's eyes widened as Karma continued " To be honest even I didn't believe them before I was super super skeptical about the supernatural witches that do the same I even used what they had previously investigated as a game inspiration "
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Karma continues his laugh " Hahaha , You know I pretended to play along with these crazy people because the thought "Their imagination will become a great asset in the entertainment industry and would make a good addition to my influence" "
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" But who knew these people weren't crazy they were completely sane and probably saner than I thought , Stuff like gems that are embedded close to their heart and their bodies sometimes being a little cold in hot weather , I thought you would think that we have some witches hidden under my industry if you played the games but "
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Karma looks at her shaken expression and makes a sinister smile " It seems like even you didn't know maybe because you were experiencing magic first hand " " How long ? " " Hmm ? " " How long did you have them under you and when did you realize ? "
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Karma moves a hand to his face and fiddles with it a little " Hmm if I were to make a guess I think I was a child back then I was pretty bored and came across a group who called themselves the witch court I liked their studies because it matches the interest of Reed but doesn't have any matches with the older forms of witchcraft "
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Lilith couldn't believe that Karma had unknowingly stumbled upon supernatural elements but didn't deny it because of Reed's own interest in magic .
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" Ah but I didn't read all of it so I decided to give the Witch Court a position they have to make fun games it seems like their practices require a witch to die first before they can use the magic prescribed no wonder nobody had been able to use the magic they showed "
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Karma turned to Lilith who already had nothing " What did you lose all your bargaining chips ? You make me feel like the villain " " Are you going to use these witches ? "
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" My , I wouldn't go as far as human sacrifices I know how well these witches are adept in the art of spirits but I am interested in making them contract the natural demons "
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Lilith slams the table causing the numerous plates to clatter " Those things are not for them to contract they have no names " " Oh but I contracted them already although I had to use my sins to make it so "
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Annoyed Lilith calms herself down " So what now I already lost my rank , my property and I'm barely clinging on to Lucifer's goodwill and now I don't even have the witches as a bargaining chip " " You make it sound like I'm going to dispose of you but I'm going to make sure I get the most out of you "
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Lilith became annoyed now that she had nothing else " Or I could quit " " Oh yeah there is that option too okay then bye " Lilith was annoyed as she threw Karma a small dark box " Is this supposed to send me to a dark plane of pain and suffering ? "
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" Not that fictional one it is my key to go to hell , the Nephalem's special space and a storage for all the properties I said I'll give you " " Is it supposed to be made by the flesh and bones ? " " No it's just a magical box enchanted with a demon's power "
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Lilith wondered how much fictional films had taken hell as an impression and created exaggerated versions of it " My goodness I should go and tell those witches about you " " Have a safe trip " Karma held the box playing with it as Lilith came back " I forgot to give you this "
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Karma smiled as Lilith put the scales of famine on the table . After she takes her leave Karma takes the scales into the storage Lilith gave him ' There are other things in here but I'll look into that later right now I'm going to have desert '
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And so he ate while Lilith went back to hell on one town ' Well I got some money I'll have to work myself to get more money and maybe go settle at some remote part of hell and exercise or something '
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Gale excitedly flies as some promise keepers appear " Yay it worked " the human souls were terrified of being surrounded by the magical creatures who have great control over their element .
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" Quick we should tell Karma to give us names " the promise keepers don't know anything about Karma as Gale talked to Arachne " Arachne can you send Karma a message ? " Isir received the message as they read it .
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" Huh ? " "Karma the stories I told the children worked so well so many promise keepers are here , I want to call you to name them but I think you are busy eating right now" " So this guy can tell what boss is doing from that far ? "
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Isir confirms that Gale is telling the truth as they continue reading the message they want to send " Huh so these promise keepers are boss's magical helpers that rely on people's acknowledgement of them " an idea crosses their mind as input goes through the orphanages Villa .
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" If you are having difficulties telling stories I can input them so everyone can read them " " Ehh what do you mean ? " " Your goal in storytelling is for others to read it you can give me the story and I can share it to others for them to read "
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Gale thinks about it " That works then how do I tell you ? " " storytelling using sounds will work , even written can also work too " ' With this I can learn more about these magical creatures maybe I can learn about body transfiguration on my own '
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Isir smirked as they activated a storyteller Arachne to compile the data " Now I have to tell Boss about it " " Huh so they decided to do that ? Honestly , I was curious why it was taking so long " " You already had the idea of doing that ? "
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Karma ate the pudding not feeling close to full " Yeah of course if all it takes is for others to acknowledge it I figured it's just a matter of spreading information and Isir can do that very easily they have a story writing platform that they dominated because they use AI's with embedded storytelling skills it's honestly amazing "
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" Why didn't you tell them about it ? " " Because it's not right to have Gale rely on me only after all if you want a child to grow you have to let it grow on like watering a tree but not doing everything for it letting it absorb the water on its own "
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Truth thinks about it as Karma said " Of course , I know very well that you are growing and it only requires a sudden burst of nutrients for you to grow substantially " " What do you mean " Karma smiled .
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" You'll find out soon , But for now you can keep learning from me " Karma finishes his food and looks at the box " Hmm I'll have to give these scales to Cain soon so he can actually use his farmer curse "
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" Do you know how ? " Karma smiled and said " I have an idea " ' There he goes again I can't even tell if he is hiding something or not ' " By the way Truth do you wanna go visit your friends and introduce yourself ? "
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" I'm sure Gale will do it for me " " You act mature despite being the youngest huh ? " " It's because I am with you , Gale is like a kid and your like an adult " " I mean I did tell Cain that I was mentally born ready because I have more memories kinda like reincarnation "
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Karma went to his car and sent a message to Risana to tell Cain to return home on his own " I'll have to tell Gale to stay put I'll have to use this thing " Karma said holding the box as he texted a message to them " Well then truth how about you introduce yourself as the youngest sibling ? "
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Truth thinks about it being crowded by different promise keepers on their phone " Wouldn't this phone break ? " " It's a really good phone waterproof , coldproof and even heat as long you keep it powered down "
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" So I still need a better form " " Maybe we can learn how to create your form from them after all there is a promise keeper that represents Nature and Nature is quite an Abstract concept but not as abstract as you although maybe they would say something along the lines of "
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Karma mumbles something as Truth could tell Nature promise keeper would say that too " But you know it's just a thought maybe they might not even say it " " But that logic applies to everyone does it not ? "
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" Well yeah I mean if Ember is the promise keeper of fire then doesn't that also apply to the sun ? After all the sun is just a bigger fire and Gale could also control hot wind since it's still wind the same could work for cold too "
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" Oh yeah maybe there isn't a promise keeper of the cold ? " " Not exactly after all cold would be the absolute lack of heat which is not something that would work maybe if you try the promise keeper of Void then it would work "
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" Because Void is the same , devoid of energy is cold " " Yeah but the problem is no one would essentially acknowledge the void and would they even be able to think on their own " " Probably not after all they are just emptiness " " That's right trying to create a promise keeper out of that would require a lot of acknowledgement "
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Karma turned to Gale who somehow was talking " Oh well I'm not surprised " " Me neither " " Oh come on at least praise me " " Actions speak louder than words but usually when a parent praises a child they have to pat their head "
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Karma looks at the leaves " And it's kinda hard when you are like this maybe you have some kind of secret art to create a physical form " " No that would be hard " " Dream could do it " " Okay but I'll turn back into the wind when I want to "
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Gale transforms into a tiny finch and lands on the co-driver seat " Awe cute little finch " Karma nudges Gale's head as Truth is curious " Can I try to be one too ? " " Sure all you have to do is " Karma ignores their conversation as he busies himself with an audiobook while watching outside .
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Cain stretches as he feels very well-rested and looks around " Huh what time is it ? " " It's almost 5 o clock also Boss left a message he told you to go back home " " Huh he did ? " Cain checks his phone as he looks at the time and then the message William gave him .
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" Oh shoot " "Cain what did you do ?" Several messages showing his replies made Cain remember that William was a target as he looked at the spider icons and saw a message .
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"William is gone I made him work to create a server so that I can use I'm telling you this because I don't expect Boss to explain everything to you" ' I thought something big was going to happen but I guess he's just some insignificant ant to him '
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"William will be sent to jail but he might commit suicide and send himself to hell I don't know what he might do after so I change the decision to send him to a mental asylum and falsify an accident to make him look suicidal in case he decided to go to hell and curse Boss in a fit of rage a lot of problems will occur ."
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' They really think everything through ' "But don't do anything hasty yet try to stay in contact with Lilith you would need a connection to hell to keep an eye on him in case he ends up as a demon but maybe you have some kind of ways to enter the reapers ? Considering that you never die"
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Cain texted as Isir reads it ' So he has death scythe ? ' Isir thinks for a while and smiles as they make plans to send Cain to work in the death department to help keep William from doing any kind of revenge .
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" Oh , that's a nice idea " Karma said as he finished reading Isir's report about sending Cain to work at the death department to keep an eye on William " What happened ? " " Isir just made one of my enemies trapped in a box "
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" Oh Isir they're the ones who helped make that talking technology " Gale said as they flew in the car excited " You really are the child " " Oh who cares I'd rather be a child than work like an adult " " How dare you I'll have you know my work is like a hobby to me "
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" How can that be a hobby ? " " well gaming is technically a hobby but there are things like the daily login bonus , so of course work can be a hobby too " " But Karma did you think of a name already for Truth or maybe Dream ? " " Not yet it's quite hard even for me to think of a proper name but I can handle the ones you bought "
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" Yay I'll go tell the others " Gale leaves as Karma looks at Truth still in the phone " It's hard huh ? " " Probably because I'm an abstract concept " " I get it maybe you are still not fully grown unlike Dream and Gale they have been around for longer than you so no need to be depressed after all you still got many years to live "
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" Okay but are you going to sleep for a long while ? " " Maybe who knows after all I'm a very busy man but ... " Karma recalls Isir's plan to plant Cain in the death department to keep an eye on Cain .
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Grim received a message " Huh ? An applicant ? " he reads the form shocked " CAIN !!!! " several of the reapers fell out of their chairs as the trauma of his sevenfold payback flowed through them .
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