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[systemize]

[The comm tag reads Stormer and is untraceable.]

Someone asked me recently how I'd define moral and immoral, but I think my perspective's a little skewed. How do you define it?


> private to Magicman
I need to ask you for a favor. Do they have you listed as an adult here? I wasn't sure what your official age would be.

> private to Isaac
I think I have your software finished. I can send you the file to download and you can check if it needs troubleshooting.

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[daimeinashi]

[Well there's that, but...]

I meant...I have no orders. No superiors. Nobody even recognizes the structure of my society in this world.

[He isn't an ANBU-class shinobi here. He's just a regular sixteen-year-old boy like anyone else. It's difficult, for someone who's never really known childhood.]

I had never really had a life to live before I came here.

[In Root, you have no name, you have no feelings, you have no past, you have no future. There is only the mission.]

[systemize]

[Cadel contemplates his response before typing it.]

Are you afraid it'll be difficult to go back to it? We won't remember any of this.

But I know that it's hard. It might be easier to think of it as faking. Mimicking others. That's how I learned.

[Cadel's upbringing was hardly comparable to Root, but he's familiar with total social ostracization.]

[daimeinashi]

No. Following orders is easy. Making decisions for yourself is what is difficult.

["Sai" used to be just a codename. Now, it's more than that, and he's slowly trying to figure out who that is. Being a tool was much, much easier.]

How were you able to translate observation and imitation into comprehension of what you were imitating?