That could be a lot of things, couldn't it? Someone who's dead was alive once.
[So in that sense, it's not so different. Not nearly as different as someone who was never alive in the first place. He doesn't think that flippant comment about a name is entirely irrelevant. It's something people use to identify others, whether or not they're still alive. And the people who would use it are still important, either way. Eiji and Hina remember him being alive whether he's there or not. There are probably a lot of things that could be said in that vein.
But that doesn't explain what the cat thinks they all have in common, or how it's true that he's here when he shouldn't be. Humans might have some beliefs about some kind of soul that still exists after they die, but for him it's just energy stored in some medals, and he burned up the last of that saying goodbye. He's pretty sure he shouldn't exist at all.]
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[So in that sense, it's not so different. Not nearly as different as someone who was never alive in the first place. He doesn't think that flippant comment about a name is entirely irrelevant. It's something people use to identify others, whether or not they're still alive. And the people who would use it are still important, either way. Eiji and Hina remember him being alive whether he's there or not. There are probably a lot of things that could be said in that vein.
But that doesn't explain what the cat thinks they all have in common, or how it's true that he's here when he shouldn't be. Humans might have some beliefs about some kind of soul that still exists after they die, but for him it's just energy stored in some medals, and he burned up the last of that saying goodbye. He's pretty sure he shouldn't exist at all.]