“Yes, sir.”
“But we didn’t even make it to the test. I told him we had tinkers that could fix him up. He was interested. Then I told him he’d have to prove himself, he asked me how. Now, it isn’t always done, that a member of the Nine tests their own candidates, but I decided to anyways.
I see… I guess that’s how Jack would have the opportunity to take a second nominee, if that’s what he’s planning with Purity. Oni failed a test, but it wasn’t the test, and as far as the other seven are concerned, Jack hasn’t brought back his first nominee yet.
Something off about him, wanted to make sure he didn’t embarass me.
Maybe it was his willingness to run away from fights he doesn’t think he can win.
Told him to come up with something, and he couldn’t. Do you know what tabula rasa is, boy?”
I know it means “blank slate”, but I’m not entirely sure how it’s used. Maybe in a sense similar to a blank check, as in that because Oni didn’t come up with something, Jack had full freedom to come up with something to fill the blank?
“No, sir.”
“Blank slate. A piece of paper with nothing on it. A formatted computer. A tombstone without the name on it. Seems that fellow can copy his body just fine when he teleports, but something in his mind gets left behind.
…oh jeez.
Every time Oni teleports, he gets closer to ending up like, well… Bakuda? A mindless husk?
No wonder he doesn’t want to fight more than he has to.
Once I realized it, picked up on the fact that he was little more than a robot wanting his orders, I informed him I had decided we had no need for his services, we fought, and… here we are.”
That’s.
Kind of unnerving.
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