[ god. this guy seems like he tells his friends regularly he doesn't want to be friends with them just so that he can have the last word. it's almost funny if it wasn't so sad. there's no real point explaining that people that actually know what they're talking lead with that instead of stating the obvious and trying to move the conversation there, but that also says plenty to eliot of what kind of person he really is. that's how manipulators work, after all. best to keep an eye on him.

he nods to cao pi's first point. ] Agreed. A system still needs to be maintained. If there is no one to lead or guide it, then there is no one to enforce the system at all. It becomes meaningless if it's not followed.

[ he doesn't know shit about the library though. that's more q's realm, so best to see what the self-proclaimed genius has to say about it. ]