2021-06-30 22:00:37Today was a good, ordinary day.
It's been a few years since the last time I experienced an unordinary summon.
This is, by all means, good news.
This level of event shouldn't be happening every day, or else, how would any species even survive? The universe is just not such a fickle and dangerous place.
Knowing the probabilities of these occurrences, it would instead be weirder to get used to it.
Be it for humans or devils, an abundance of resources is to be celebrated.
Also, if something of this scale happened again and I was assigned to it again, I would definitely curse the management. It is an opportunity to get merits, but the cost far outweighs the gains.
ClemCaNot gonna lie, this was supposed to be a simple interlude job. But I was really inspired. The main inspiration was Youjo Senki, because, to me, it is not only a fun ride of a light novel, but Tanya is one of the characters with the greatest psychology I ever read. Her way of seeing things is second to none. Her character isn't a common occurrence in human society, but she is a realistic character. I mean realistic in the same way that Kamiya Yuu wrote the way his main characters thought in NGNL very realistically, to a point it hits real close to home for certain categories of autistic people, I think that Tanya is really close mentally to many people. As someone with a bit of both, these are works that truly matter to me, and inspire me.
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