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[Oh look it's the guy who threw that New Years' Party. What insanity are they bringing this time...?]

Things are exciting here. More and more exciting. There is even a tournament! I have never participated in one before - it is a friendly contest thing, yes? I cannot wait to see how everyone performs. The aim is to win, so everyone will be fighting to the best of their ability, to beyond their very limits, otherwise the win is tainted, yes?

Yes.

You will all try very hard.

[Er, did their voice get a bit weird then? A bit deeper? Hm, oh, no, their voice is back to normal]

I hope so in any case. It will make this dull otherwise.

There is a question to be asked.

Hatred and Love is viewed in equal measure. Humans normally say love is worth more. In recent months, I have seen media that espouses that love will always succeed over hatred. Hatred is inferior. It sustains only the self, but it is like poison also. Pure intentions become twisted, revenge distorts the mind and morals, and eventually hatred destroys the individual...

I must admit, this confuses me. I have observed no such things in humanity before. Ah, the corruption, yes, but hatred has sustained and protected humans as much as it has poisoned them. It is usually love that brings about self-destruction, as they hold another's life higher than their own.

So, I have always viewed hatred and love being of equal measure. They are different, yet powerful in their own right. It is like that saying, what, pears and lemons? Apples and peaches? Whatever.

So my question is thus: what do you think is more powerful or more important? Hatred or Love?

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Yeah, that's right--

Wait, how do you know my name? Did I tell you the last time we talked?

[Honestly all he remember was willpower and blah blah blah it was kind of like talking to saiduq]

[Anant utterly ignored the question - stalking no there was no stalking don't be silly~]

This is good. I enjoyed my discussion with you last time. Please excuse my subdued nature today. It is necessary.

So what are your thoughts on my question?

Uh...I'm...glad?

[He's more distracted by the fact that someone sort of appreciated a philosophicalesque discussion with him than the fact that this guy mysteriously knew his name. Eh, he'll address that later.]

Uh-- I dunno, I'm not really good at questions like that. I've never thought about it before.

Think about it now. Ramble. I do not mind if you trip up here and there in your musings. I wish to hear your thoughts.

[Anant is eerily attentive...]

[Well this was a situation he'd never been in before. It's not like he had ever gone to a hippy dippy english class, he grew up in Japan!!]

Uh... I guess... Love, I guess? I think a lot of people can do a lot of bad stuff because they hate people-- I know a guy that wanted to totally remake the world and change everybody because he hated the way a lot of people acted. He didn't really seem to care about anybody, and he was even the leader of this organization and everything. Pretty strong, but he kind of scared me the first time I met him. [...] Actually, scratch that, he still scares me.

And I guess that's sort of what those Anoli guys are doing too? I don't actually know their plan, but they don't like the government, right? So there's that...but I guess now that I think about it, I don't think hatred is gonna get you very far in the end. I guess it might be easier in the long run, but I don't think that's necessarily better.

There was another guy I knew too-- actually the exact opposite of the guy that I just told you about, that hated society? I guess he's kind of the argument for Love, he kind of cared too much I guess. He wanted to do the same thing, but remake society so that everyone was equal, because he cared about everyone, in his own way. But unlike the first guy, this one didn't have an organization backing him or anything, but he was way stronger than me anyway. Maybe he was even stronger than the first guy...? They were at least on the same level, and the fact that he was able to do it without all the resources the other guy has, I think that just proves caring about something is stronger than hating it.

Then again, I think the first guy did...sort of care, in his own way. He cared enough to want to give people the chance to succeed, where they wouldn't have before, at least. I guess in the end you can't really separate them-- because if you hate something strong enough, you probably hate it because you care a lot for something else.

You are very insightful.

[DINGDINGDING APPROVAL]

Humans are extremely complex. I understand now that they are perpetually in conflict with one another, emotionally, mentally, and sometimes physically. Love and Hatred are the driving forces behind most human thoughts. I hate this, I love that...

That first man you mentioned. He loathed people, yet paradoxically loved them enough to remake the world to help them. The second man loved everyone, yet hated society enough to change it for them. One cannot exist without the other, it seems.

Wh-- In...sightful? [Sheepish chuckle go] That's the first time I've heard anything like that.

Heh, I don't think many people really think about it, but they kind of do underpin a lot of thoughts we have, don't they? Kind of like a yin and yang sort of thing. Honestly, I'm not sure if I would call either of those guys right though...

Who is right, and who is wrong, is always subjective. What is right for one person is not right for another. What is evil for another, is not evil for someone else.

Morality and 'rightness' is constantly shifting. Elusive and slippery. Even those, who are supposedly omniscient and above such things, do not know what the true 'right' is.

I-I don't know about the whole "morality" thing, though I guess that was part of it... Everyone else was arguing for it, at least. I don't think there's anything that's right for everyone-- Heh, I think extremes like that are what get us into trouble in the first place...

Yes. Yes, I agree!

That is why I want humans to have full freedom! To forge their own paths in the world, to decide on their own what is right for them, what is wrong for them, whether it is love or hate that predominantly drives them - to have something that stifles that is - wrong.

[WHOAH WHOAH WHOAH THERE Daichi is suddenly five times more anxious and three times more unsure.]

W-Whoa whoah-- What the hell was that?! Was that you?!

Mm- ah!

[HOLD ON FOR A MOMENT. Anant coughs, smoothing their hand over the bottom of their mask as if trying to force something back]

...

My apologies.

[Voice back to normal, and back to being calm and composed. None of that usual excited talk]

Pay that no mind. I am... unsettled today, it seems. Influences are strong.

[Daichi was staring with scrutiny all the while. Something was pretty obviously up with this guy.]

Influences? What influences?

Influences.

[Anant's tone was a bit curt there.]

...hm, that is not fair of me, is it? Very well. I interacted with myself while I slept a few hours ago. It always leaves impressions upon me afterwards. Black and disgusting, truthfully. It is a wrong version.

I pity it.

[Yeah, that makes total sense Anant]

[was there any part of that actually made sense, 'cause he's pretty sure there wasn't.]

You...were talking to yourself? What do you mean? Your Persona?

[No, that didn't really make sense, did it? Then again, he'd never seen this guy's Persona.]

No. Not Dionysus.

[There was a bit of a long pause here]

If a rock is cast down and it splits into pieces, would they still be thought of as the same rock? Or would they count as individuals in their own right?

Uh...Both?

[why are we suddenly talking in riddles]

So individual yet of the same whole being.

Even if those pieces of rocks travel far away from each other?

[Just go with it]

Yes...?

[in this reply, the literal presentation of "just going with it."]

I-I mean, it's still technically the rock, right...?

Yes, you are right...

...

My apologies. It is not something you should be troubled over. It will pass soon.

C-Come on! You can't just flip out like that for no reason and expect me to get over it! You still haven't even told me how you know my name!

I found your name. It is on the network. Didn't you know?

Thank you for your concern though. That makes me a little happy. Genuinely.

Oh.

[Judging by that look on his face, no he didn't realize that.]

Well... It's not exactly the first time I've had a friend flip out-- or, almost flip out like that. But I'm pretty sure it's universally a bad thing.

[Daichi 8I]

A bad thing? I suppose it can be viewed as such. Not to worry though, nothing harmful will come to pass from it.

[Some things just slip your mind, OK!]

You sure? That seems like the kind of thing that could get dangerous if it's left unchecked.

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