Taylor and Vortex Training Days! Education is Important
*Taylor slammed her head against the table, a thick tome open before her.*
Taylor: You know, I used to think I was fairly smart. But these legal texts are giving me a headache. How many different court cases do you need me to study at this point?
Vortex *Reviewing his own scroll*: Well, we have gone over the Third Circle of Hell's General Guidelines and Definitions of Gluttony. The specific examples they give are a bit archaic but still fairly good. I'm also trying to arrange for a month long internship in Japanese Hell, but my contact over there is kind of busy right now. Hozuki is nuts for Gold Fish plants and he is neck deep in preparing for their yearly breeding competition.
So, until that is cleared up, I believe you will be studying five different variants of the Dead Sea Scrolls and their impact on different cultural norms in their unique universal variants. So, maybe another three months of work on this topic? Subject to change of course.
Taylor: You know, I used to hate Sophia Hess with the burning passion of a million suns. I still do in fact. But even I have to admit that she had a point about there being something very cathartic about just punching the bad guys. At least compared to analyzing the details of Infernal Law. Why is this so important anyways?
Vortex: There is no better way to understand and overwhelm your enemy than by picking apart their motivations and methods. Law is one of the more practical applications of that principle and no one is better at rules lawyering than the various Infernal Hosts. Sure, they are mostly considered the epitome of evil, but that doesn't mean you can't learn from them.
Taylor: Do all Demon Lord's go to law school then, with a graduate degree in social economic theory? Because that makes about as much sense as what I am reading right now.
Vortex: Well, the successful ones do. There are those who rely exclusively on their charisma, power, or bloodline to get by. That doesn't tend to go well long term.
Taylor: Really? How bad could it be compared to this?
Vortex: Well...
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*Three hours later in a Tokyo Park*
Taylor *taking a bite of a pepper fry*: So, let me get this straight. This demon lord Satan was trying to conquer his own world to better protect the demons he ruled over but, because of the bad press that he had to deal with from the local church, an epic hero rose up to drive him off, leading to him being sent to a non-magical Japan. He was stripped of most of his power, and now makes a living working in a fast food burger place.
Vortex *taking a bite of his own burger*: Yup. Incredible power and charisma, and he now wants to take over THIS world working his way up the corporate ladder by exceeding the sales quotas of special fries. Oh, and don't forget that the epic hero that followed him here is making grocery money by working at a call center.
Taylor: Suddenly studying doesn't look so bad.
Vortex: Heck, this isn't even the worst example!
Taylor: Really? From Demon Lord to Fast Food is pretty damn bad. How could it get worse?
Vortex: Well, there is that one world where everyone dedicated their lives to defeating the local demon lord. When it actually happened, their entire adventuring economic model fell apart. Warriors had to get real jobs and his daughter and heir had to start working retail after they repossessed her castle.
Taylor: Okay then, I think that's a long enough break! Let's get some more work done!
Vortex: Sure! In fact, I found this lovely little international treaty on the application of full body prosthetics in military actions and the numerous ways those guidelines have been violated since their inception! That should give you some food for thought.
Taylor: Yay...