"S-So what you're saying is that I'm stupid?" Bop indignantly asked Dude.
"Yup"
"K-Kuh... I refuse to believe that!" Bop began crying like a little girl after hearing Dude's honest assessment and quickly took out the Thesarius.
*Woosh~* Lights of different colors illuminated the area before teleporting Bop inside the weird piece of space with no gravity filled with beautiful lights, sparkles, and mountains of books that was inside the Thesarius.
"W-What are you doing here?!" Bop saw Dude follow him into the space.
"You do know I'm a hologram coming from your brain, right~?..." Dude asked in his usually stoned voice.
"W-What did you do with my body?!! Argh whatever I'm going to ask the Thesarius myself!" Bop pridefully went up to the Thesarius as he asked:
"Am I stupid?"
Flashing and blinding lights majestically covered Bop's eyes as was customary with the visions the Thesarius gives when answering questions.
The vision took Bop into a mysterious field covered in clouds that seemed endlessly soft. As Bop kept on swimming, the clouds finally separated to uncover a sculpture of a word whose letters were sculpted from gold.
{YES!} It read...
*Poof* The vision disappeared, leaving Bop with the harsh truth.
"Haha.... Hahaha. So I'm stupid, huh..." Bop drooped, visibly shaken by the truth.
Seeing Bop's sorry state and feeling semi-guilty for destroying a person's self-image when he hasn't even been alive for a year yet, Dude comforted "W-Well I didn't mean stupid STUPID, ya know... When I said stupid, what I really meant was self-awareness! Self-awareness, ya get me right, man~? I mean you haven't even been alive for a year yet! Even I'm not self-aware sometimes, despite living for I don't know, a gajillion years! It took me a long time to be WOKE ya know... So don't give up and be too harsh on yourself"
"T-That's it! You're a great wizard right?! Tell me how to be this Self-Aware Woke thing! Pleaseee~!" Bop pleaded filled with newfound hope...
"Well, I guess the three things you need to know to be woke are: You're not the center of the world, You're not always right, and lastly Don't believe everything other people say so easily... Yup that's pretty much it..." Dude calmly reiterated.
"Yes. yes... I can feel it: I'm not the center of the world, I'm not always right, and lastly, I won't believe everything other people say so easily... Yesss~ It's coming to me! Oh yeah... No..." Bop breathed.
"A-Are you sure that's it? I don't feel any smarter though..." Bop felt skeptical.
"Huh… Becoming woke isn't something so simple okay~? It's a slow and passive process of learning from which past and future mistakes can be corrected and no longer repeated… It's the process of 'life' Bop my friend… The process of life~…" Dude posed like a monk who received enlightenment... A very stoned monk.
"Ehhh~? Then am I doomed to be un-woke for the rest of my youth?! I'm already a month-or-so old! 5 more years and I become an old Clone by then! Arghhh!" Bop freaked out when he heard Dude's words.
"Woah Woah, okay okay… Maybe I could hook you up to my Interior Knowledge Archives so you're System wouldn't be so empty… Huh, I wanted you to explore the world and broaden your own Knowledge Archives though… Welp, not everything goes your way in life I guess. Just don't be too disappointed though as my Archive's no Thesarius... Though~ it is the closest thing there is, hehe"
Dude suddenly became serious as he stood upright, staring deep into Bop with his deep eyes filled with an ocean of wisdom which made Bop flinch and also stand upright like a soldier apprehended by his superior.
Bop stared at Dude's eyes that looked as if they were saying: 'Are you sure you're ready to do anything?'
"I-I'm ready! For anything!" Bop answered filled with conviction.
Dude made a smirk as he said: "Heh... You said it yourself, alright? No complaining later"
"Of course! Nothing easy is ever free!" A response Bop learned from Wang Chung... The capitalist Higs addict.
"Heh! Alright, follow my every command! Now do a chicken dance! Like this, like this!" Dude began flapping his hands like a chicken while Bop followed.
"Bacack~! Bacack~! Come on Bop! Shout, shout!"
"Yes! Bacack~! Bacack~!" Bop followed while also flapping his hands.
"GOOD GOOD! Now a Monkey! You're a Monkey, Bop! Uga Uga Uga! Whose~ a Monkey, Bop?! Whose a Monkey!"
"I-I'm a Monkey! Uga Uga Uga Uga~! I'm a MONKEY~!" Bop passionately cried.
"Then Dance Monkey, DANCE~!" Dude forced Bop to do many different dances like:
"Ostrich! You're an ostrich! Yes, yes~! Now Ox, Snake, then finally a Kuzorlork-Bazelblack!" Dude kept on inciting Bop...
"Yes, ostrich! Ox! Snake! And a Kuzorlok-Bazelblack!" Bop flawlessly executed each and every command like the professional fool he was...
*Plop!* Bop fell to the floor in exhaustion as the gravity-less space floated him everywhere...
*Yawn* "Yes, ok... I'm bored~ with this now... Wait a minute as I upload my Archive up to yours..." Dude the Wizard tiresomely said.
"Eh?" Caught off guard, Bop asked Dude: "Then what was all that dancing all about? Was it part of some complex ceremony to upload data or something?"
"Oh, all that? No no, I just really wanted to dance animal dances... And~ done! Ok~ try to inspect that sword on your waist then" Dude innocently smiled.
At that moment, Bop thought to himself: [Don't believe everything other people say so easily! The third tenant of self-awareness! How could I have so easily forgotten! Gah! A FOOL~ was I, to believe the words of fellow man~!] Bop emotionally overacted.
"Arghh FINE!" Bop begrudgingly did as Dude ordered, and much to his surprise...
{> Name: Bop's Sword, a.k.a. Disassembling Sword
> Description: A Yu Guaian sword forged at [Planet X3-07], locally named [Zhong-Guo], home planet of the [Yu Guai] race of aliens. It is made with three overlapping grade-5 [titanium] that can be disassembled and reassembled using the button below the hilt.
It is designed with circuit-like engravings instead of the more traditional circular engravings on most Jian-type swords.
> Notes: [Meiyu] dislikes this sword due to [Bop]
> Functions & Hidden Function: Can dismantle and assemble its self
> Materials in making... Etc. etc.}
For the first time, Bop was surprised at the number of information written about one single sword...