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UN: @kyouken // Back when I was a brat, I found a sparrow with a broken leg and took it home

Seems like a couple people here have been showin' up with folks they know from back home. I was figurin' that since they came from the same place, they were also from just about the same time -- but from what I been hearing, that ain't necessarily the case.

So if you're from the 'future' compared to someone ya know here, lemme ask ya this: do you remember that other person going missing?

I also heard that there were people who came here before us, but it tapered off before starting back up again last month. But how long was that dry spell? Would anyone from back then be around?

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I think it was stupid of them to bring so many of us to their den. [And, given the chance, that person didn't want to die. It wasn't some purposeful sacrifice. It was a mistake. They'd simply reinforced that any mistake was fatal.]

And our efforts to figure out the situation certainly stalled after that.

[Even if it wasn't their intention, it had happened.]

The world's a big place. It can't all be like this. There's got to be someone who knows more about these things.

_{[It feels like his optimism is running on fumes--but he'd still like to hope no news is good news when it comes to the mysterious earlier arrivals, like maybe they found some answers out there. They won't know until they go themselves.]}

[ Well, that was cynical af. ]

Where'd they bury her?

Definitely too early to throw in the towel.

[ He smiled a little. Whatever else one could say about Majima, he wasn't a quitter. And he hadn't gone through what he had to roll over and wait to die on some alternate Earth, either. ]

We got brought here, so there's gotta be a way for us to get back. Just gotta be smart about it, is all. Running around aimlessly, tramplin' over things that could be important -- that's the worst we could do right now.

i didn't find anyone from home, so this post is already offensive.

Tough shit.

So what rock you been hiding under?

the garage i've been living in. it's a cozy hole. no one bothers me, and i can network surf all i like.

which is once whenever i feel like. not the ideal, apparently. seems like i missed a lot of stuff since.

You live in a garage?

[ pot, kettle. Majima's apartment back in Sotenbori didn't even have a bed. It didn't even have a futon. It was like a blanket. A table. A radio. A kitchen, but only because that had come with the place.

Oh well, whatever. ]

Who're ya stayin' with?

i like places with multiple exits, what can i say.

[ it's a little more complicated than that, but hell, maybe the guy's sharp enough to read between the lines. tetora trusts that he is, anyway. if tetora could get away with sleeping out in the open, he'd do it without hesitation. ]

so far i've only met the one guy. tall, shark-like, hair like an actor. european-looking dude named erik.

[ oh. uh. hmm, yeah.

While the reasoning behind Tetora's sleeping preferences wasn't too much of a surprise, he hadn't been expecting Erik to come up in conversation, least of all as Tetora's housemate. He didn't know why, the guy obviously had housemates and Majima was bound to run into them, but.

Well good thing they were doing this over text. ]

Oh, right. I think I met him the first couple days we were here.

Haven't met all my housemates, either. Not face-to-face. I don't think I've ever seen that Eve guy crawl outta the garage.

[ curiouser and curiouser do things become.

tetora's unaware of the man's recent acquaintance with his own housemate, though, so all of the mystery gets the response of an unseen shrug and a mental note to ask about majima later. points to majima, though: the question is a low priority. look at this guy go. ]

i think i have one or two more at the least, but i haven't met them yet. i might when i soundproof the garage though.

what's a guy doing being named eve??? what?

I don't know, I could barely get any answers outta him as it is. But he's not a guy, exactly... said he was a machine.

There's also a couple kids, and a cute girl -- Rosa-chan.

oh.

[ looks like it's his turn on the awkward pause train, oops. ]

you just got here and you're already on the prowl for a date, seems like. tsk. keep your dick calm, dude.

She's your age, get your head outta the gutter.

[ I mean, if it ever came out. God knows. ]

you don't even know how old i am

wait

i think you do?

aw fuck, my air of mystery.

Yer secret's out.

If you want, though, go ahead and drop by sometime. I'm around mostly at night, though.

i'm gonna jump you.

not the fun type. or something. YOU GET WHAT I MEAN.

[ raises eyebrows

which type was the fun type, answer him that ]

I'm lookin' forward to it. No one's tried since I got here.

[He might have a different view on it if it were just him trapped here but the whole "bringing students along" thing put him more on edge. He wouldn't disagree with the statement, though.]

I believe they brought the body back and buried her here. The locals get proper burials.

i'll make it worth your while so much you'll miss me when I'm done.

[ lord who knows. ]

You follow up on even half of that promise, and I'll even thank ya for it.

[ Majima had always enjoyed fighting. Sure, plenty of soldiers did. But as part of the Shimano family, his confrontations had been part of the business -- which meant he needed to rein it in. Remember the mission. Be an example.

Ironic that it was only as a civilian, pitted against Nishitani's violent, unpredictable madness, that he'd finally allowed that leash to slip. But more importantly: ]

Can't get over how everyone spills personal details over the network around here. Never saw that back home.

[ u included, tetora ]

[ he'll stab you in a bit, don't worry.

meanwhile, though. ]

i'm what i am. keeping it quiet has gotten me more trouble than it's worth, so really, i'm doing me a favor just laying it all out there. less bullshit for me to deal with, you know?

Yer the expert on that one. I'd rather know anyway if someone has mind powers.

[ Not that that meant he was going to start telling everyone he was ex-Tojo, though. He leaned toward Kiryu's side on this one -- it'd only complicate things, and it wasn't like a bunch of foreigners were even going to understand what it meant. If anything, they might assume he was one of those mobsters of ill repute.

Besides, anyone who spent enough time around Majima would figure out a guy didn't get that good with a knife working an office job. ]

Sounds like a real pain in the ass, though, 'specially if ya can't control it.

Definitely. And if someone's doing this on purpose, we can't just let them keep trapping people here.

You mean like clues of where they might have gone?

i can manage it when it happens. most of the time.
it's just fucking annoying. imagine trying to get laid.
suddenly it's this too-complicated bullshit with the feelings and thoughts and doubletalk.

[ he'll be the first to admit that he's having trouble relating to people because of this crap, k. this drama is just that - drama. ]

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