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[worldchampofmartialarts]

[Satan reflexively chokes out a breathless, wheezing laugh so strained it sounds like the unintended suckerpunch of Fred's wording actually managed to knock the wind out of him.] Wow! Th-the... the nerve some people have, huh?! Can you believe it...? That people would j-just lie to get a reward they'd have no way of earning in earnest?! P-perish the thought!

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...b-but you must be mistaking me for someone else, son, 'cause I don't get tricked. I'm the one seeing through all the lightshows that no-name weaklings call "fights" just 'cause they happen in a ring. I'd know a fake if I saw it.

[whymustifeel]

Yep! There's hundreds of people like that. We've gotten a bunch of them arrested.

[Said brightly.]

Well, sure, a lotta people say stuff like that, but it's easy to get tricked in the moment- especially when whoever's in the monster costume puts a lot of effort into making it look and seem real. How do you really know what you saw can't be fake?

[worldchampofmartialarts]

[He gives a sharp inhale, sucking air through his teeth.] ...so is hiring teens to do the dirty work just standard police procedure now or what.

Listen. I don't know what rock you've been living under where you could deny that monsters are real people. And I wouldn't give a good goddamn if you were just saying that about Cell, but shutting down all monsters? You disrespecting my disciple with those words, kid? To his FACE? [He presses his hands against the sides of Xaphan's face, adorably squishing his cheeks. Is this a face you wanna contest the existence of, Frederick?]

[whymustifeel]

Well, no. The cops don't like us much, 'cause they can't really do their jobs right.

And hey- I'm not saying they're not real here! Like I said in the video, I haven't found any proof that these guys aren't real, and even if they are fake, it'd be a really elaborate scheme and not really make any sense... Which describes most of the mysteries we solve, but still! What would be the point in replacing all the local wildlife with fake monster wildlife that I guess would all be clones or robots or something?

So no, I'm pretty sure they're all real here, I was just talking about- "Cell", you said, right?

[worldchampofmartialarts]

Ha. Buddy, you don't know incompetent cops 'til the ones in your city gotta keep calling your daughter out of her classes to take on street punks for them.

...dunno what difference it makes where we are, you should know who Cell is. Didn't he get like... a whole lotta news coverage? And that's before he just up and hijacked every broadcast with his smug ol' mug... but even if you somehow managed to miss both of those, you're telling me I went through the trouble of getting a cameraman stationed at the scene of the fight, only for you not to tune into it-?

...aw hell, don't tell me your folks don't let you watch TV...

[If he's that sheltered, that'd explain a lot for him right now. A lot that could just as easily be explained by them being from different dimensions but, You Know.]

[whymustifeel]

Aw, I wish the police trusted us that much...

[It'd make things so much easier! They wouldn't have to worry about getting arrested all the time!]

My dad doesn't really care what I do, so long as I don't get in his way too much.

[He frowns.]

I was thinking we're from two different universes, but hey, maybe I did just miss hearing about all that. I don't watch the news much anyway.

[worldchampofmartialarts]

...now I've got no idea what you're getting at with that, bud. "Uni" means "one". Doesn't make sense there'd be more universe than the one we've got. S'big enough as it is, don't you think?

[He pauses for a moment, processing Fred's description of his dad.]

What do you mean by "get in his way".

cw: implied parental neglect

[whymustifeel]

Well, there's the multiverse theories, right? Where there's like, an infinite or nearly-infinte number of universes? So yeah, each one is one universe, but there's millions more!

... Oh! It's nothing, it's just- my dad's busy a lot with important stuff, being the mayor'nd all, and he says my traps and our mystery solving interfere with his job too much- drive away tourists in town, get on his nerves... It's fine, though, I know he still cares!

[Considering the fact that whether or not his father cares about him was literally never brought up by Satan, that overly-chipper reassurance is a little weird. Probably fine, though.]