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The shape I saw wriggling there couldn't be described as human, only vaguely.
[MAJORDOMO] "YIKES!"
'Ah...!?'
There, propped up on a chair was a body. A bulging body that has lost most of the human definition it was transformed from. It was a fatty sack of flesh so strained that holes had begun to tear from the stretch marks about its form. It was bumpy and covered in swells. Faint supernatural light poured out from those holes torn in its being.
[MAJORDOMO] "What the hell happened here?!"
'...This body, it's the mayor.'
[MAJORDOMO] "What did that Demon bastard do to him?!"
'He's... full of a souls.'
[JOCO] "Come again?"
'His body. The Materia making up his physical body is swollen from containing more souls than his own. There's hundreds in there, maybe even more than that. A mortal body cannot contain a soul other than its own, the one it was born with. All those souls being contained within him are clashing against each other, trying to escape, and trying to take over the physical body. This causes it to mutate.'
[MAJORDOMO] "From the body trying to take on the features of that specific soul?"
'Theoretically... if you emptied a body of its original soul and all other spiritual components and organs and preserved it perfectly without killing it, and then placed another soul inside... that soul would take over the body, and the body would mutate to become a form that the consciousness contained in the soul knows. Souls are the "commanding organs" of the spirit. That's why they're able to...'
[JOCO] "Don't you wanna vomit right now? This is just sick..."
'I do. But I can't let the disgust get to me, not while I'm still hunting the Demon that did this..'
[JOCO] "Heyyy... Wait. Demons collected souls, didn't they? Do you think this is where he's storing his."
[MAJORDOMO] "Yeah, that's actually a good catch. If he was walking around carrying his collection with him all the time, he'd inevitably worry about running into some Immortal that would notice that. Now, what to do about this...?"
'I'm not sure we should do anything just yet. He would be able to feel if his collection was released. Additionally, we don't know what sort of contract resulted in this, and if putting this man out of his misery would cause something worse to happen. And besides... if they've already been collected by Saturday... then releasing them would send them to the Afterseas.'
[MAJORDOMO] "Damn it. Can't we just go public with this?"
'We could, but would that really help?'
Hmm...
>Destroy the Mayor, free Saturday's souls.
>Go public with this information.
>Try to summon him directly by whispering his name. Demons respond to their names being called on...
>Ask Hale's opinion.
>Request help.
>Request Seannsa's help.
>Request Eikn's help.
>View the upscale restaurants of Oakville.
