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May 20 - May 28, 2025
“Lady Raythe,” Shade interjected. “Mr Asano is immortal now. I believe that his deeds today will be the start of his life as a cosmic figure of note.” “Agreed.” “Allow me to share some wisdom in advance that, with time, will doubtlessly spread across the cosmos: when Mr Asano says things you do not understand, do not ask questions.” “Wouldn’t that mean you sometimes miss information which is important to know?” “That price, Lady Raythe, is entirely worth paying.”
“Fame isn’t a prize, Council Leader. It’s a price. Surely you know that.”
“You should make some tweaks,” Colin suggested, pointing up and down at the body. “You could change that part.” “You just pointed at the whole thing,” Jason said. “I know where I was pointing.”
“Don’t feel bad,” Colin said. “I just happen to have a primal hunger that the ladies respond to.” “Are you getting interested in women?” “Ick, no. Wait, do I get to eat them?” “No!” “Then definitely not.” “Please don’t go around eating women.” “You’re saying that I can eat men?” “Absolutely not.” “Okay.” “Okay?” “I said okay,” Colin insisted while Jason stared at him with suspicion. “Colin.” “Yes?” “You can’t eat gender fluid and non-binary people either.” “Oh, come on. It’s like you don’t want me to eat anyone.”
“Do you ever get sick of being right, Shade?” “I have made my own mistakes, Mr Asano. You just don’t notice with the frequency and magnitude of your own.”
“As I see it, you have two choices. Conquer your world or stand apart from it. Above it. Like a god. You have to rule them, or make them realise that you are so far above them that you have no interest in their little games. Anything in between and it will be chaos.”
“Shady Back Door Access,” Travis echoed, his words slightly slurred. “Name of your sex tape.”
“I think you just like hearing yourself talk.” “What are you talking about? Everyone loves hearing me talk.”
“I know you’re a good man, Jason, but I also know that you’re a great man. And as you said yourself, people like that are dangerous to be around. When they make a statue of a someone, they don’t sculpt in all the dead folk around them.”
“You do this, Jason,” Anna said. “Grand proclamations. Fate of the universe. But all we have to go on is your word. You never tell us enough to check for ourselves.” Jason nodded. “Back then, I was more inclined to kill you all myself. Fortunately, I didn’t have the power to conquer the world back then.” “Implying that you do now?” “Yes.”
“My intention today is to help you understand that I will be coming back to Earth with unassailable power. Limitless, for most practical purposes. Anything I want to do, I will be able to. Anything I don’t want to do, no one will be able to make me. Conquer the world, erase nations. Eliminate every head of state on the planet in an afternoon. Whatever threat the people of this world think I pose, I can promise you that it is much, much worse.”
“I’m currently working with my new bartender to try and reproduce Earth cocktails using Pallimustus alcohol. We just made some dirty Shirleys, and there’s a princess who can’t get enough of them.”
“If people could stop Jason Asano from following through on bad ideas, the world would be a different place. I told him how messy this was going to be.” “What did he say?” “Something about a spider and responsibility and his uncle, I think? It didn’t make a lot of sense.”
“I did suggest a more measured approach. Strongly suggested.” “He clearly didn’t listen.” “No, he did.” “You’re telling me that this is the more measured approach?” “I am.” “He kidnapped seven members of some of the most influential families in Estercost.” “Allegedly.” “A copy of the same letter from him was found in each location, along with heavily compromised baked goods.” “That does sound like him,” Danielle conceded.
But what’s the point of living forever if you don’t take the time to have fun?”
Given that this will be permanent, ten years isn’t a large timeframe. It’s only two-thirds of a Jason-going-off-to-fight-gods-or-whatever. That’s a new measurement of time I’ve started using, by the way.” “Did your wife come up with it?” Jason asked.
“Well, that all sounds disappointingly mature. Here was me wanting to make fun of you for sneaking around like a teenager.” “Oh, the urge is there, believe me. I’m gold rank; I’m meant to have too much self-control to be this horny.”
Jota was very familiar with pirates whose lives were spent preying on the weak. Asano had the aura of a man who preyed on the strong.
“Is that a threat, Mr Asano?” Lenora asked. “You can call me Jason. And no, it’s not. You don’t a threaten a mosquito that lands on your arm, Lenora. You swat it if it bothers you.”