"My friend! Can you feel my anxiety?"
The great druid's question surprised Baiyi, and the expression on the soul armature's face turned to one of confusion.
'I'm not even your homie, man. How am I supposed to detect a sudden increase in your anxiety? Besides, aren't you a goddamned tree? How can trees be anxious? Even if
As though sensing Baiyi's confusion, Grandfather Tree said, "Sense it. Use the Gnosis that you were taught to try and sense it…"
Baiyi was speechless. The vigor he originally had to engage the great druid in a private conversation had now disappeared. What he had heard so far made him think that he and Grandfather Tree operated on different levels of cognitive reasoning.
TL’S MUSINGS:
Would you? Would you accept the mission if you were Baiyi?
Seriously though, I would— however reluctantly (probably with a little bit of an anime-eyes-darkened face, but I’ll get over it quickly)! I mean, if I’m some awesome, badass Voidwalker with increasingly over-9000-power, of course I would have to do a little more stuffs for those without power and yet deserve them, man. ‘With great power comes great responsibility,’ my man Spidey would say. And also, ‘Helping people is good, y’all.’ I don’t know who said this, but I’m gonna just find a nice background image with the watermark “www.shutterstock.com” not even removed, and then write this line in Times New Roman, font size 36 and 48 (interchangeably), colored white, and then attribute it to someone famous… Like, um, Donald Trump? And here’s something I would surely find in my Whatsapp Family Chat Group!
(Ha, Deadpool! You think I’ll attribute that quote to you instead so that you can sound more like your webheaded idol? Think again!)
Anyway! All that aside, I do believe that helping someone is important, especially when you can. I mean, come on, Baiyi! You’re also here in Marle because you wanna skip some damn festival anyway! Just tell him your expiry date, like maybe you’ll try to investisgate it within five days and after that you would have to go back to attend you own issue. Ain’t that swell? Plus… Dude, I thought you were savvier than this, man! Have you really not noticed that regardless of “benefits” being mentioned or not, you’ll always get to see cool stuffs or get cool stuffs from these adventures, like a reversed Murphy’s Law? If I were you, I would just say yes and then blindfold myself in the streets— pretty sure I would end up with the Caudillo Butterfly suddenly hanging on my ear while I finally sobered up next to the toilet bowl in my cheap wife’s house.
So what do you guys think? Would you accept a mission like that?