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[ There are two brown puppies eating a Christmas pudding off the floor when the camera activates, little tails wagging as they trip over paws that they have yet to grow into. Their muzzles are oddly long even now, but they're not quite as bulky as they will be -- not yet.

A quiet chuckle from behind the locket reveals, to those who may have heard it, the surprising owner of the pups -- the Outsider. The smaller of the pups looks up from the pudding at the sound and scampers over, whining and pawing at his legs until the Outsider bends down to scoop the little one up. The locket, which is floating in midair via magic, is pushed back -- just in time for any viewers to watch as the pup attempts to burrow into the Outsider's shirt. ]

You are unlike others of your kind, little one, [ the god murmurs, smoothing a hand over floppy brown ears. The other pup is still eating the pudding, though at this point it looks more like she's getting in a fight with it. ]

In my world, Wolfhounds are kept and trained by Overseers of the Abbey to hunt heretics. That I should now have a pair myself is rather ironic and more than a little amusing. But then, they are terribly intelligent creatures.

[ The small pup licks at his chin and he starts, blinking. The locket turns off just as his mouth twists up until a slight smile. ]

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The Void.

... "Diet-death"?

Oh. Alright, whatever that means. And diet because you look like the low cal version of Death. Same taste, less calories.

The Void created and will end the world.

[ Dumbed down explanation because he has to ask- ]

What is a calorie?

Uhhh, they're in food? Like, how much energy you get from it. But if you get too many, you get fat so girls always freak out about them.

That is... quite strange.

[ But at least he can sort of see how he would be the low calorie version of something. Sort of. ]

Yeahhh, I don't really get it either. And the diet stuff never tastes as good, anyway!

They make diet types of foods?

Yep! And diet drinks and diet sugar and probably like... diet gum too.

Diet... gum?

"Sugar-free" or whatever. Not as good, if you ask me, buuuuttt....

And it is a- snack?

Nah, you just chew on it and then spit it out? But that's rude, too, and if you eat it, it gets stuck in your innards for the next seven years... You're better off with stuff like hi-chew.

Why would you chew on it if you should not ingest it?

And what is hi-chew?

[ sorry junpei ]

Because things are boring and you don't have any real food to eat? Hi-chew is candy that you have to chew on for a while before you can eat it, so you don't have to worry about spitting it out. They taste pretty good too.

[ this is an awful combination. ]

If things are boring, why not do something else?

I see. And what does it taste like?

[ or wonderful ]

Cause you're waiting for the monorail or trapped inside by a typhoon or something?

Different flavors. Apple, lychee, peach... all sortsa stuff.

What is a monorail? And I am not trapped by such storms, not in my world.

Typically fruit flavors?

A really slow train — we use it to get to school usually. One time, it got taken over by monsters. [ GONNA GET IN TROUBLE WITH YUKA-TAAAAN ]

Yeah! At least, I don't think there's any other kinds of flavors... but then again, they totally make candy that tastes like wasabi... I dunno.

There are monsters in your world? [ Strange, considering -- Junpei -- but perhaps he's simply very well-adjusted. ]

I do not believe I know of wasabi. But then, I do not tend to eat.

Yep!

If you ever do eat it, eat like, a bucket of it at once. It'll make you cry.

What sort?

I suppose it is spicy, then? I wonder where one might obtain it in this world.

Gross face melting blobs of darkness.

I hear there's less white food at the station? Maybe there.

How... oddly specific.

It has been suggested that I partake in- eating. Perhaps I shall have to try some there. I do enjoy their microwaves...

Yeah. They're pretty gross, too.

Oh, oh! And get some Mad Bull and... um... I dunno. Put an egg in the microwave.

There were shadow monsters here, once. They were driven off only by dogs.

I placed a rat in one once. It did not survive.

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