[ He's laughing as he says it, swinging her hand. It's an ironclad, persistent truth about Maruki: He asks questions he already knows the answers to simply because he enjoys the reassurance of hearing what he knows to be true.
And anyway, it might be a long story.
A drawn breath, deep and steadying, nothing to do with the exertion of the hike at all. ]
I'm sure I've said before that the field I studied had to do with how our perception shapes reality. The broader applications of that were all theoretical, and I dedicated my life to proving that they existed. It was on the fringes of academia, to say the least...
But they were real. A vigilante justice group took it upon themselves to change the hearts of criminals. Their means are... something I'm still trying to understand, but the end result proved my theories correct. One could alter someone else's perception of reality by directly interacting with their cognition.
[ There is a profoundly nerdy joy to this explanation, but– well, Maruki's an intelligent man. It's tempered by what he says next. ]
Of course, that has drawbacks, and there are ways it could go terribly wrong. I wanted to keep a close eye on that group, so I started working at the school where the first changed criminal had been a teacher. You already know that I sought Kurusu out because of his ties to that teacher, so you can probably guess who the leader of that group was.
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[ He's laughing as he says it, swinging her hand. It's an ironclad, persistent truth about Maruki: He asks questions he already knows the answers to simply because he enjoys the reassurance of hearing what he knows to be true.
And anyway, it might be a long story.
A drawn breath, deep and steadying, nothing to do with the exertion of the hike at all. ]
I'm sure I've said before that the field I studied had to do with how our perception shapes reality. The broader applications of that were all theoretical, and I dedicated my life to proving that they existed. It was on the fringes of academia, to say the least...
But they were real. A vigilante justice group took it upon themselves to change the hearts of criminals. Their means are... something I'm still trying to understand, but the end result proved my theories correct. One could alter someone else's perception of reality by directly interacting with their cognition.
[ There is a profoundly nerdy joy to this explanation, but– well, Maruki's an intelligent man. It's tempered by what he says next. ]
Of course, that has drawbacks, and there are ways it could go terribly wrong. I wanted to keep a close eye on that group, so I started working at the school where the first changed criminal had been a teacher. You already know that I sought Kurusu out because of his ties to that teacher, so you can probably guess who the leader of that group was.