[ It is hard to take offense to Matoba's assessment that he should not be here - van Zieks rather agrees after all. As much as this world seems designed to torture him personally, he has now spent long enough in it to understand that no such karmic punishment is truly taking place. Jigoku-Cho is just a place. The place worst suited for van Zieks. And yet, here he is, working himself into exhaustion every day for the sake of this town. ]

I never once doubted that this realm likewise operates on rules. Many things that would have been trickery in my world are daily life here, but I will not believe for a second that these 'magical' events are not bound by their own laws of possibility.

[ And he'd love to just leave that weird logic be, judging it from afar, but... ]

Unfortunately for everyone involved, I have been placed in a situation where I need to be able to understand even the inexplicable so I can enforce order onto it.