>I can already see Stella getting bored. She cares not for my romance novella. I don't bother torturing her with any more of it.
>"Alright, hermana. What do you want to do instead." I set my book down, noting the page.
>She looks up to me, I can see the glint.
>"No anime." she folds her arms and pouts.
>"C'mon Stella we can find something." I pat her leg gently.
>She sighs and returns to the mind palace.
>"Uh..." I roll my eyes at her indecision.
>"Alright, how about you tell me something about..." I pause to try to tie something I can relate to to her obsessions.
>"Buddhism." I land on that. I don't care much but it's sort of interesting to see what the other side of the fence thinks. Wrong if it is.
>"Huh?" Stella looks at me strangely
>"Y'know, Japanese religion stuff. Whatever they do."
>"Oh...OH!" she perks up at this.
>"Do you know what reincarnation is?" she's VERY excited about this. I slightly regret bringing it up.
>"A second life, no?"
>"Yup, the idea is that your good deeds or otherwise sort of push you into a different lifestyle the next." How novel.
>"I get it. So if you're bad you suffer and if you're good you prosper?" I see the similarity here.
>"Mhm. Bad enough and you turn into a bug." she's excited about this. Gross.
>"So bug's the bottom." she nods
>"What's the top then?"
>"Ascending to a sort of heaven. Nirvana." Not to far away from the teaching of the Lord. I see.
>I hum along as Stella bolts up and runs over to her bookshelf, digging through it.
>She plops back down beside me.
>It's manga, of course.
>"Here!"
>I sigh and read the cover "That time I got reincarnated as the villainess!"
>Stella looks at me expectantly. I swallow my pride and open to read. I have to focus as I see the stego's eyes judging my every reaction.
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