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[sweetsleuth]

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[tigerpoet]

I can hardly imagine. I wrote a story about a man turning into a white tiger, but nothing on that level - I'm sorry.

It could be worse?

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[sweetsleuth]

I don't really want to imagine worse.

[sweetsleuth]

But you don't have to apologize.

It was nice getting to hear all those stories again.

I already knew how most of them went. But it's been a long time since I've seen them written as anything other than a police report.

[tigerpoet]

[Atsushi doesn't really want to talk about the other things Ranpo was famous for writing anyway.]

Even though it wasn't exactly my intent, I'm glad.

[sweetsleuth]

If you find any other books about him, you should send them my way.

It's weird, but also kind of fun to think there's entire collections of stories about my father somewhere.

[And then his brain can explode when the similarities just keep stacking up.]

[tigerpoet]

I can only get so many a month, but I'll pick up one of the novels for you next month.

[sweetsleuth]

I take it there's some complicated system for getting things from our own world like that here, then?

[Typical regain mechanics]

[But that also means Atsushi went out of his way to get this for Ranpo, and honestly, he's a little touched. Would be more touched without the creepiness factor of the whole invented-his-own-dad thing, but what can ya do.]

[tigerpoet]

Ware Wolf Shop sells these dimensional orbs you can use to bring small objects from home. Limit two per month, I guess because they cost a lot of Chroma?

[They can do nothing. Unfortunate.]

[sweetsleuth]

Huh, now that's something.

A shame they can't make it work in the opposite direction, huh? Then they might be able to just poof us back home.

[tigerpoet]

I don't think any of us are small enough.

[sweetsleuth]

Then they just have to make it work on a bigger scale first!

Like seeing if they can bring a car over here.

And then maybe make sure living things can survive the trip.

[THAT PART SEEMS IMPORTANT]

[tigerpoet]

That would be important. I know I'm not technically a living thing, but I would like all my living friends to be okay.

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[sweetsleuth]

[Nani the fuck?]

[sweetsleuth]

I think you may have skipped over the whole "not a living thing" when you introduced yourself.

[tigerpoet]

The same names part is strange enough, I wanted to get it out in bits and pieces instead of dumping it all at once?

I'm the spirit of a dead author summoned to fight monsters that are inside books. Lived 1909-1942.

[sweetsleuth]

[Bruh]

And you called this situation weird as hell?

Even for our world, that would be pretty high on the weird-scale.

[tigerpoet]

Ghosts are not weirder than your father being fictional and written by you from another reality.

[sweetsleuth]

No, but ghosts summoned to fight book monsters sounds like the plot of a really cheesy manga.

Or one of those gacha mobile games that turns otaku into gambling addicts.

[Fourth wall what's that]

[tigerpoet]

You're in a detective agency for people with supernatural powers, that's equally as shounen manga-esque.

[sweetsleuth]

But that's par for the course in our world! We even have government agencies to regulate special abilities.

Are you saying people regularly summoned ghosts to fight monsters back when you were alive?

[tigerpoet]

No, because that sort of thing is supposed to be secret and I wasn't someone with special powers when alive. But it's par for the course now, happens all over the world.

[sweetsleuth]

...still weird, either way.

[They're both weird, man, they just gotta accept it.]

[tigerpoet]

Very weird. Should I just tell you all the weird parts of my existence now and get it over with?

[sweetsleuth]

And miss out on the opportunity for more conversations like this in the future? No way!

Ah, but I did meet Tiger-kun, by the way! Not sure how aware you were when he took over in that elevator.

[tigerpoet]

Were you enjoying this conversation??

[Because he wasn't!]

Not very aware at all. He's completely aware when I'm in control, but when he takes over I only get bits and pieces. Less if he's in a bad mood.