It was almost hard to hide his blushing as he realized he'd made a mistake with his choice of words. His first language was Hawaiian naturally, and his close second being English. The mistake hadn't gone unnoticed, and he was happy to change the subject when Xiao Yu started to smile.<br/><br/>"I got into the private investigation business because when I was younger, I always had this sense that I could fix something, and I never could really tell what. I started helping solve crimes, using a fair bit of intelligence and my photographic memory helped too. I was really good at it. I also wanted to be a teacher growing up, but every time I thought someone something, it made me sad, in just the strangest of ways. So I stuck to PI'ing." He smiled, wondering about the next line of questioning.<br/><br/>"And who knows with ghosts? Energy can't be destroyed, just changed and remolded. Human cognition as we know it is just a bunch of electrical pulses sent through specialized nerves via chemical reactions. Who is to say that energy doesn't live on in some other way. Hell, who knows, I might even be myself recycled in the cosmic circle of energy."<br/><br/>The rumor about the Ming Emperor caught him off guard, and he'd done his homework.<br/><br/>"The Chongzen Emperor put a curse on everything to prevent anything happening to royal corpses? Seems odd considering he hanged himself. Shortly before the Shun Dynasty, then later the Qing Dynasty started. Haha, and as for the sarcasm, I have no clue what ever you could possibly mean."