Adstringendum voice mail

[leashed]

If you require my services and have tried to contact me without a response, I may be unavailable.

Please leave a message and I will get back to you as soon as I am physically able.

Romulus Hart, 1st lieutenant

Comments

[leashed]

i believe that is where we conflict. I am the lowest of the low, compared to humans- i have no problem with this. It is how things are

I have been actively training for forty-nine of my fifty-six years to become this way. I realize that things are simply done differently in here, and even in your own world, but in mine, subhumans like myself answer to human handlers and commanders because we are subhuman and cannot be trusted to make our own decisions

I serve as a squad leader here because i am capable of leading others with proper instruction and because others thought it was appropriate. I enjoy what i do and would like to keep doing it. I do want what is best for the people, but i accept the fact that i am not to be trusted to make that decision because I am not human. It is my place to serve, and i will do so as long as i am able

...However there are things that i hope i will not be asked to do. I am not sure what my actions would be if i were.

[mere_shopkeeper]

That may be what you have been taught and believe of yourself, but know this, Hart-san... It is not what someone is that defines them as human or not, but rather who we are.

And there are people here who trust you.

[leashed]

i am not sure i understand. a dog for all that it feels emotions and protects is master will never be considered a human

...i hope i will continue to be trustworthy

[mere_shopkeeper]

Ah, but you are not a dog, despite the wolf that is part of you, and that, Hart-san, makes quite a difference.

[leashed]

i am only slightly more human than a chimpanzee mister urahara

[mere_shopkeeper]

I disagree, but only time will tell which one of us is right~

[leashed]

i mean genetically

[mere_shopkeeper]

And like I said, genetics do not define our souls.

[leashed]

i am not sure if i believe in a soul

[mere_shopkeeper]

You should~ I am basically only a soul!

[leashed]

then why can i see you

[mere_shopkeeper]

The Animus tend to put the more... floaty of us into solid bodies.

[leashed]

i was not aware of that

where did your body go in your world???

[mere_shopkeeper]

I lost it a long time ago! Whenever it was that I died, that is.

[leashed]

i am sorry you are dead

[mere_shopkeeper]

I don't know if I am. That life seems so long ago.

But thank you for the condolences anyway.

[leashed]

yes

is there anything else you need to address

[mere_shopkeeper]

I don't believe so~!

Until the next time we talk then, Hart-san!