NOVPUBWhile the others were busy admiring Razor Maiden’s new form, Zhen Liu received an unexpected message via telepathy.
=Apologies to interrupt your revelry Kaijin Lord, but there’s something Pathos and I must discuss with you.=
<Don’t worry too much about it though. It more of a logistics thing than a world savior thing...that comes later!>
’Well that’s...good to hear. It’s very hard to tell if you’re messing with me or not.’
<And you will never know.>
=We’re sending you a map of where we are, just follow that and you’ll be good to go.=
Zhen Liu was about to tell the others that he was going to go meet with...what he assumed were either embodiments of the Library or his own subconscious manifested, but stopped himself when he realized they were very much enamored with the oddly cute way Razor Maiden was complaining about her new limbs.
"I can’t cut anything with these," Razor Maiden huffed while smacking her own thigh.
"But you are rocking those stilettos girl!"
"That’s what those are called?"
"Huh...think the daemon had other outfits to try?"
’Multiversal truth: When given the chance to have quite literally any look you want for no money, people will take it,’ Zhen Liu mused as he made his exit from the group and walked towards wherever Logos and Pathos were at.
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"I...the fact ’what the fuck’ is starting to become my go-to phrase nowadays is a little worrying," Zhen Liu muttered as soon as he walked through the door of this new meeting room.
When he arrived to a new yet strangely familiar section of the Library of Nowhere, he had assumed that the meeting room would be weird, possibly magical and with a probably more powerful than it looks creature just munching on a snack nearby.
He did not expect to see Logos standing to the side watching as Pathos was making use of what Zhen Liu recognized as a fucking arcade cabinet. Making the whole thing weirder, he was pretty sure they were playing Fatal Combat [ ;) ].
<I’m just saying Logos, you should try out these "video games" things too. This arguably the most fun I’ve had in years!>
55-hit combo!
=You said that about the "comic books", the "cartoons", the "movies" and the time you mentally traumatized those would-be invaders,= Logos shot back in a monotone voice, =And I suggest you stop now. We have a meeting with our lord soon remember?=
C-c-combo breaker!
<Ay! Fine, let me just...>
MORTALITY!
<Yes! Wait, no, what’s that new word I learned...oh yeah! Boo-yah!>
Zhen Liu was tempted to comment on...anything that had just happened right now, but was a little stunned by the sheer culture clash occuring at this moment. Thankfully, Logos was the first to notice him and was ready to change the flow of the atmosphere.
=Ah! Milord, apologies for showing you our less... professional sides,= Logos apologized with a bow. Pathos followed suit, but a touch slower and still smiling about winning her game.
=Are you ready to begin the logistics discussion as we had arranged?=
"...No, actually I have a question...," Zhen Liu trailed off as he walked over to the arcade cabinet and gestured towards it, "how and why?!"
=Are you asking how it works and why Pathos was playing it?=
<Because it’s fun?,> Pathos answered with a shrug.
Zhen Liu grimaced for a moment before elaborating his question further.
"How do you guys know about arcade cabinets and why do you have one here?"
=Well...in order, the two of us are connected to the Library of Nowhere, and the library, as you have seen our in the field, is able to add to new pieces of knowledge to itself via copying it from the memories of others and/or you applying the seal to various forms of knowledge.=
<In essence, touch all the things.>
=Following this line of logic, the library will also add to itself any knowledge the current patron, the Kaijin Lord, may have acquired before or during his or her ownership.=
<No one is safe from our memory scans, not even you.>
"Wait, that means..."
=We and the other kaijin are well aware of your status as a...what terms did we settle on? Transmigrator?=
<I thought we went with Truck-kun’s disciple.>
=Ah! I remember now, Otherlander. We are aware of your status as an Otherlander, Master Thomas, but you’re not the first we had to accomdate for and your not the only Otherlander on Valresta,= Logos nonchalantly explained.
<You lucked out on finding us.>
Zhen Liu was shocked to find out that he wasn’t the first to get yeeted to this world, but not surprised, so he could still maintain enough verbal usage to ask about a certain flaw in their logic. "Okay...but that doesn’t explain the cabinet. I played it once sure, but I never completed it and I have no idea about the inner workings of video games."
=You didn’t, but you did understand how the internet works, so we used that to fill in the gaps.=
<So many cat videos...and girl videos...and a lot of catgirl videos!>
It took a second for Zhen Liu to realize what the hell these two spiritual looking elf things just dropped on him like nothing.
"I...you guys somehow recreate the internet?!"
=No. We recreated a computer and used that to access your old world’s internet. Surprisingly, the sheer amount of [Chaos] generated on this so-called interconnected network made it very easy for us to access it.=
<Y’all have so much knowledge on there, it’s insane.>
Zhen Liu did not expect this conversation to be happening...at all, but took a deep breath before refocusing his mind in the original topic.
"Alright, so y’all have access to the internet...somehow...will need to use that later...but let’s move back to the main topic: Logistics?"
=Ah yes. Simply put milord, we’re going to discuss how you’ll be able to access the library from here in our without having to come back and forth.=
"Oh...neat."
