>>5822466>>5822486>>5822492>>5822511>>5822524>>5822535“That’s pretty amazing that you know all that. You said you learned it from the great crab sage?” You ask.
“Yeah! He was really nice. Most crabs can’t talk so he wanted someone to rant out for hours.” She explains.
“How’d you even get to the crab realm?”
“Well… Let’s just say it’s a secret technique of the Igarashi family and leave it at that.”
“Still, it really is pretty awesome that you know all that stuff. Did you ever think about how it’s weird that all the planes correspond to human concepts?”
Naoki actually jumps in at that. “I don’t know about these matters, just using logic here, but don’t you think based on what she said that using a human-centric point of view is a little arrogant? Maybe the other spiritual planes aren’t using human concepts, maybe we’re using concepts from other planes that touch ours. And maybe there are other planes we can’t imagine; we just can’t find out about them because they’ve never formed any bridges with ours and never bled into our spiritual space. Could be that there are different, disconnected sub-systems of planes and realms that just happen to have no connections with each other. Maybe there’s a world where everyone is a weird slime creature called a Shit-Ass and the Shit-Ass analog of Otomo is asking Shit-Ass Masami why everything seems to be related to Shit-Ass concepts, and they’ll never figure out what a human even is.”
“I guess, but that kinda bugs me because it makes our lives seem cheaper. Why should I care about anything if Shit-Ass Otomo and I are the same person? I mean, if I died and Shit-Ass Otomo didn’t, it makes me feel like my life was just some stupid joke. What if ‘human’ means ‘Shit-Ass’ in their language? I don’t like the idea that from some alien spirit’s perspective on my existence it’s some kind of dumb joke. I want Shit-Ass Otomo to respect my life.”
Naoki shrugs. “Well, then respect his life in return without insulting him. Damn. By the way, where are we going?”
You stop walking and look around. They were following you apparently. “Well, I’m going to Yuna’s house to check in on Team Yudai. I haven’t seen any of our old classmates in a while and I was starting to miss Katsuro in particular.”
“Yuck!” From Masami. “Screw Katsuro. He’s a walking nutsack and he looks like one too.”
“I’m sure it’d be really funny to watch you say that to him. Which is why I wish he was here.”
“Otomo,-” Naoki cuts off your tangent. “-We’re wandering around randomly.”
Ah. Okay. Going to the Yoshinaga residence. You knew Konoha like the back of your hand, it was… You realize you have no idea where the hell you are. You look around. You’ve definitely been down this street before, you’ve been through here a million times. But you can’t think of how it relates to the overall layout. You walk down a random street.
