Megumi and Alexander were almost crying from laughing, even some others nearby turned to look at the trio, some laughs leaving their lips, Vincent just bited the interior of his mouth, looking away, a bit ashamed, and before he could say anything, Alexander's arms went around Vincent's shoulders, holding this one closer, almost too close.
" Hey, Vincent, approach slowly, pal " Alexander said, smiling a very shiny smile, the ones Vincent used to see on toothpaste ads;
" But... She's... Her clothes... They're... " Vincent mumbled, in a loss of words from the very odd situation where he has made a fool of himself, Alexander laughed once more;
" Ooh my God. " Megumi said, covering her mouth with the back of her hand, where she held a phone; "What's about them? it's a style, silly!! Haven't yu never seen a skirt before??" Megumi said, a little acid and sarcastic, she leaned forward with one brow up;
Vincent went through at least thirty shades of red, quite embarrassed from what the woman might be suggesting, he could only open and close his mouth like a fish out of the water. Again, before even a single wave of sound could even be able to travel out of Vincent's vocal cords, Megumi leaned back and sighed, as if she was tired of laughing, then shifted the weight of her body from one lag to the other, and proceeded to scroll on her phone.
" This was funny and all, but, Alex, what are you doing with him? " She asked, scrolling idly on her phone, seeming quite bored, " add me and Alex on ChatBubble, Vincent, by the way " Megumi added, turning her phone screen to Vincent, with a QR code and the app name, small, and her name;
" I'm not with- " Vincent started saying, patting his pockets, thinking that his phone wouldn't be there but surprised to actually find it, inside of his pocket, on the same side he always putted it; " What is this doing here? " He asked himself, and proceeded to try turning it on, the phone was scattered as it was when he was still alive, What's funny, ironic and somewhat calming;
While Vincent was trying to turn his shitty phone on again, Alexander grabbed his phone and opened it, scrolling fast.
" Ooma ordered me to guide him through the facility —here, Vince, add me — wanna tag along? " He said and quickly grabbed his contact information, turning the phone to Vincent, for him to get his number;
Vincent, who had finally managed to turn that historic phone on, unlocked his phone and dialed, very slowly because the phone was still starting, have patience, Alexander's phone number, then proceeded to try scanning Megumi's QR code; only of it to not work, his phone was very old, too old to even have the technology for scanning QR codes, besides, he didn't even have that 'ChatBubble' thing downloaded, truly a huge struggle.
" I'm in. Doing anything but my job right now is my priority " Megumi said, laughing sarcastically as she flipped her phone, closing it, after Vincent finally managed to add her and Alexander;
" Hah! You're truly insufferable! " Alexander said, letting out a big laugh, that type of laugh big men do, putting the hands on his hips and learning a bit backwards, he meant no harm at all in any of his words;
" Indeed I am " she answered, tossing that long mass of bleached curls she called hair, full of herself;
Vincent agreed with Alexander even more about her, but he meant a bit of harm.
Vincent could only put his phone, which was hot enough to fry an egg, on his pocket, before Alexander turned him to the left and started walking, with Megumi following along. He didn't know whether to cry from being squeezed, to be happy to be squeezed by a real life greek God, or to cry from forced socialization, but was dragged through a irritatingly bland office corridor where the light gray plastic walls of the cubicles, with just a few opening for inter-cubicle corridors closed his right side vision, and a gray, that sad gray tone shitty places have, wall with some plants on the ground leaning against it and one single water dispenser, closed his left vision ray. It was utterly depressing, Vincent thought, but the suffering was short, and quickly Alexander turned him to the left and the three of them entered on the second elevator of the day.
" Vince, pay attention " Megumi started, after clicking on a bunch of buttons on the elevator, turning to look at the guy she was talking to, " there are three hundred floors, as Alex must've said already, they're divided into two sections just like the whole Soul City is divided into the Passing River district and the White all White district " Megumi said, raising a finger up and pointing at many directions, as if she was pointing to a diagram in a white board, or at some imaginary drawings that appear in manga and anime, she only stopped speaking when she saw Vincent's face twist with the horrible names;
" Who the hell gave those names? " Vincent asked, in between his teeth, with a whole lot of mockery;
" This is a question we both ask ourselves ever since we showed up here, but the names are indeed a piece of shit " Alexander said, smiling a yellowish smile with mockery;
" Anyways, shitty names away, the Call Center you guys work is in the top part, with management and more officely-y departments, not to mention the high bosses, they're also in the top floors! " Megumi added, clarifying about locations, just in time for the elevator to let out a loud 'ding' and for the doors to open, " here we are " she said, finally, smiled and stepped away from the elevator;
Vincent, who took at least five seconds more to absorve all that information and that they had just arrived somewhere, was just carried out of the elevator by Alexander, who, finally, let go of him, allowing Vincent to breath and process the pain, something he thought it would be Impossible to feel since he was dead, of having his shoulders squeezed and almost folding in half by the vertical way. In front of Vincent, an almost endless line of shelves full of documents and boxes stretched to all sides, it looked like an infinite archive, he even sneeszed by reflex when tought about the level of dust on that place.
Megumi and Alexander giggled and started walking through the archives, the first one in front of Vincent, the second one behind him, guiding him through the archives. Megumi only guided them through the halls, squeezed by boxes and folders with billions of names, while Alexander pointed to everything and explained, very in detail, to Vincent. He told Vincent that all of these folders and boxes belonged to souls and were, mostly, information log about every single living being in the whole existence ever since the begging of time, which was a long time according to Alexander, a comment so silly that made Vincent chuckle and smile.
" The Archives have a total of three ever expanding and endless main floors, which can stretch into as many directions as needed, since the Earthly physics do not apply here " Alexander said, as the three of them stepped out of one hallway to enter a huge space with some desks, probably for studying and annotations;
" Like a non-Euclidean space? " Vincent asked, looking at Alexander for some time, before he felt as if he had spoken nonsense;
" Yes... " Alexander said, looking away and making his word longer than usual for a moment, " we could picture it that way " he added, smiling, looking at Vincent's eyes with a bit of amusement;
" What's a ' non-Euclidean space ' ? " Megumi asked, using her phone screen light as a flashlight as they all headed towards a set of spiral stairs;
" It's a type of space where the usual rules of physics and geometry don't apply, as this place stretches endlessly to everywhere while still keeping the structure of three floors, I thought of this concept " Vincent said, explaining quite calmly as they all descended through the spiral stairs, holding the handrails and watching every step;
" Oh, that's... Cool... I guess... " Megumi said, clearly not understanding what he had spoken, at least Alexander seemed to understand him;