"Understood. Perhaps some sort of protection for the chip would be in order. If your Soul Chip is something akin to a central processor, then it would be imperative to ensure its safety through any and all future procedures you might elect to undergo, not to mention any sort of accident that might compromise the hardware. And, I'm led to believe this place has something that the locals have been referring to as 'magic'. I don't know what that would do to one such as yourself. I believe something about the way this place operates has compromised the neural chip in my cerebrum. Not to any real detriment, if you don't count a vast downgrade in my cognitive response..."