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[catmemes]

[ He can't quite help his toes twitching in response to the poking, but Kai just cocks his head and keeps still otherwise. If this is really all Matoba wants, it's not exactly a hardship. ]

I owed you for last time.

[ Which isn't to say that he doesn't still have questions, more Kai isn't quite sure where to start. A lot of the basics have been made much more clear, but from the sound of things most people aren't entirely sure what's happening here. Some seem to have adjusted better than others. ]

I think a lot of it I have to see for myself. [ All the questions in the world won't help if he doesn't understand the answers, and Matoba doesn't exactly seem like the direct type. That's fine, he can work with that.

His eyes do narrow slightly, though. ]

You had questions for me too, didn't you?

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[Ohhh, but the twitching is just part of the cuteness...! Matoba, mesmerized, reaches with both hands to take Kai's paws gingerly in his hands, and uses his thumb to lightly stroke and squeeze at the pads of his paws. The squishy palm, the soft toebeans, the fuzzy fur inbetween...!]

[He is certainly much too distracted to be properly listening to Kai the first time around, which results in a good long minute of awkward silence hanging in the span of his question. The man finally realizes after it's been a little while that Kai was staring at him expectantly, and that's when he looks up from his enjoyment to level a surprisingly business-like gaze of his own.]

Oh? Do you mean the, ah, "memes"? [It's said so aloofly that Kai might as well assume he's mocking him. Or just sounds like some out-of-touch oldtimer. But he goes on right away,] Ah yes, I did a little research after you told me, and I think that I have seen something like that when looking at pictures of kitty-cats.

It seems the trendy thing is to put jokes on the pictures of cats. Although I don't quite understand what the connection might be to an ayakashi.

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[ The paw petting is tolerated with quiet patience, Kai seeming more amused than anything as Matoba apparently loses himself in it. Who knew all he needed was to let himself be a living stress ball? Honestly he'd be perfectly willing to let Matoba just do what he wanted and not have this conversation at all, which is of course when the man's attention focuses properly again. Figures.

Even still, the idea of cat macros being 'trendy' sparks even more amusement. Though in retrospect, he doesn't actually know when Matoba comes from. Interesting thought. ]

It's not just jokes. Memes can also be...rumors. Ghost stories. Folktales. Call them what you want. [ He won't patronize the exorcist by assuming he doesn't know what stories can do to a spirit. But the sheer scope of it is sometimes hard for even Kai to wrap his head around after years of practice. ] And they get repeated. Over and over. All over the world, sometimes.

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[In his rhythmic, calm squeezing, Matoba pauses as Kai's explanation sinks in. He looks up into his little kitty eyes, unafraid as many humans would of staring into an ayakashi's eyes. His own reflect nothing, the opaqueness of a human whose heart has been sealed off of any gaps.]

I see. You are...... a manifestation of those forums and internet postings, are you? Chain letters and message boards and the like are indeed rife with that sort of thing.

[It's thanks to Shinobu that he knows much about that... She had always been more interested in keeping up with what occultists were up to, the fantastical rumors and exaggerations of the Sightless. Collecting and fanaticism both, he supposes, was the prerogative of those that could not Do.]

Modern-day folk pamphlets. Haha, to think that even electronic stories could accomplish it, but then- human hearts have generated them all the same.

[He gently releases Kai's paw, patting the top of it for good measure. So fuzzy.] But that would make you quite the young thing, wouldn't it? Unless, I suppose, you are from very far beyond my era. [His smile tilts up a little.] You don't feel like something that has only just manifested.