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Today I talked to the person at the college who is over-seeing the written work I have to do for my duel spirit apprenticeship in order to get the result on my latest written piece and they told me that I only really have to write one more piece to have covered everything. It can be on any topic I like in regards to spirits and I have until the 19th of September to write and submit it, then I should get the result of it by the 30th.
As long as it passes, I will of passed the entire written part of the course. I've already covered everything I needed too for the practical part of the apprenticeship.

They also commented that they have really enjoyed reading my research papers and that they had a lot of good ideas. They said I should think about writing articles, but I told them I already have written a few articles for the Spirit Foundation for magazines and newspapers. Juudai leaves that kind of stuff up to me as he says I'm "better with words" than he is.

Feels kind of weird that I'm so close to finishing this.

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Looks like I'll be getting my full time Duel Spirit researcher soon!

Ahh, I'm not sure I can even live up to such a title, there's so much I don't know or need to learn...

Haha! We're all a little like that, even me! Don't worry! We really need someone who doesn't mind being knee deep in books now and then when something needs researching into and you're one of the best people for the job!

Thank you.

Oh, also, I need to speak with both you and Asuka-san about something when you both have the time.

Oh? Well, you know you can come to us at any time if there's something you wanna talk about!

Nice to hear that's going well for you. I wish you luck and confidence in passing it!

Thank you, Shinji!

You're welcome.

Though... do you think you'll have time to spare, in the next few days?

Yes, I have the time to spare, that's no problem.

You mind if we can meet up, then?

I haven't gotten to spend any time with you recently, and... There's something I kinda want to show you.

Sure! It's a shame we haven't had much time to hang out, so it'll be nice. Just let me know when.

Alright, thank you. I'll send you a message for when.

I'll be glad to do any proofreading, if you need it. But I am going to be extremely busy with September coming.

Thank you, Asuka-san! If you have the time it would be helpful, but don't worry if not. I know you've been really busy.

I'll do what I can, but I might not finish the whole thing.

Good to hear you're finally getting that done. That and I can imagine having someone with an accreditation to give the foundation more authenticity should be a relief for Juudai.

That's okay.

Yes. I still have a lot to learn myself, but I'm happy that I can have the ability to help Juudai and the foundation out more.

Best of luck for the both of you.

Thank you, Asuka-san.

Oh, I mentioned it to Juudai, but I do need to talk to the both of you at some point, when it's convenient for you.

Just pull me aside during an evening me and Juudai are relatively awake and we're both home together...?

I will do. It's nothing serious or urgent, so I will chose the right time when you both have the time.

Then talk about it during dinner when we're all together. That should work out.

That'll work. I'll do that then.

... Wait, what's this about certification.

Hm? You mean the apprenticeship and course I've been doing for the last year? The Duel College felt that doing an apprenticeship at the Foundation towards a duel spirit research and theory course was the best for me and during it I had to submit six thesis/research papers on what I was learning. The sixth and final one is due at the end of September.

Not sure I could bother with accreditation like that.

I feel like I need to be actually working.

Well, I figured if I want to be a Duel Spirit researcher, I should have some kind of qualification behind me, just to give some credit to my research papers and whatever else I may write in the future.

Well, I guess someone has to write the papers. I'll stick to filing and field work.

... Though, what are your papers about, out of curiosity?

Hm. A lot of it has been based around the work I did with the foundation over the last year. One paper was about the foundation itself, how it works, it's achievements and why it's important, another on the reasons why spirits choose to come and live here, one on the history of the duel monsters game and the spirits themselves... it's a wide range of things.

But I want to specialize in researching into the bonds between spirits and humans and the things that can come about from it. That's what my last paper will be on. It will look at a number of different spirits and humans that have strong connections to each other, the reasons why, the importance of such bonds and what can occur from it.

I was inspired by similar work once by Desdemona-san, Isabel's Black Rose Dragon and ever since then I've wanted to continue looking into it.

I don't know much about bonds.

But I know a human and a monster overlaying lets you make magic bullshit cards out of nowhere.

If they're ever published, I might want to take a read, but I have to admit I think I might be a bit jaded on Spirits.

Then again, working with Ancient Fairy as a Signer means I have to deal with the stuff that makes you jaded.

So why is the foundation important, in your opinion?

Why do Spirits come here?

I guess I can't blame you for being a little jaded on them.

In my opinion, the foundation is important to bring together the bonds between people and spirits, especially in this recent age of the spirits coming from their home realms to live here, but it's also important to help us and them better understand each other. I think the unity between duel spirits and people can bring about amazing things, but both sides may not regularly accept each other without help straight away.

As for why they come here...some spirits just want to live better lives here because their home in their dimensions are not comfortable for living in, some come to travel, some come to cause mischief sure... and some... feel just drawn here for some reason. Most I talked to never knew why they were, just that they were.
I found that last one interesting. I'm curious about what draws them. I have theories, but they're all pretty much guesswork and no proof.

I deal with the crazy jerks, so it spoils your belief about the other guys being sane.

I'm curious what your guesswork is.

Edited 2014-08-24 05:50 (UTC)

Well, I started looking back at it's ancient Egyptian background and came across numerous texts on how the spirits were thought to be a person's very nature, called a "ka" and those spirits were sealed in stone tablets and used for battle, which is how the idea for the game we know now was formed. So thinking of this, it would mean even back then, the duel spirits had a strong connection to humans, if not, were part of what made a person.
It made me wonder if all spirits had a human they wanted to connect to and that's why they're drawn here, or if it was just certain spirits that were connected this way.

I also began wondering, since they do have their own world and their worlds are part of the 12 dimensions along with ours, if there was always such a strong barrier between these worlds. Of course, the barrier between ours and their's is weaker now, but I wondered if the spirits were freely able to come and go at one point in time, which could add into why we have so many myths based on creatures such as dragons, unicorns and such. Maybe, at one point, it was natural for them to be here.

I have a personal theory here, and it's a bit mindscrewy:

I think we kind of retroactively make the Duel Spirits exist.

There didn't used to be Synchro monsters, but all of a sudden, these ancient Synchro monsters show up.

I wonder if human minds and souls imagine Duel Spirits into existence. Which would explain Ka.

... Which is really kind of scary if I2 is literally making things exist.

I hadn't even thought about something like that but... as crazy as it sounds, it's a possible theory and as you mentioned, would explain such Duel Spirits coming into existence when they didn't seem to exist before...

...it could also explain why sometimes duelists are able to get a hold of one-of-a-kind monsters seemingly out of nowhere. Granted it's rare, but maybe they're just... created by the duelists own mind and soul when they're in a particular bad spot in a duel, like life-or-death or end of the world type of bad spot.

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