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

[justbeingknife]

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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[countersway]

[oh shit was that a swing and a miss? oh boy he feels stupid.]

Sorry. You remind me of someone I know. Well, knew. I guess. That's all.

[justbeingknife]

Nah, my name's definitely Majima, but... do I know you?

[ username ryuoh? was that a hint? it was pretty ostentatious, but he didn't recall any dragon kings or... anything...... ]

...You in the business?

[countersway]

[oh thank god. can you feel his relief coming through the screen, majima?]

Yeah. It's Kiryu. I had no idea you were here.

[justbeingknife]

[ Kiryu...................... ]

Kiryu Kazuma?

[ mostly what he feels is confusion, but other people have dudes from their own worlds, WHY NOT HIM ]

[countersway]

[... um. did another kiryu show up while he was in prison?]

Come on, I wasn't gone that long.

[justbeingknife]

[ Oh!!! He was right. Man, what a small world. ]

I apologize for my prior rudeness. What a coincidence; I wasn't expecting to run into anyone from Kamurocho here.

Now that I finally have the opportunity, I'd like to thank you for all you've done.

[ that was definitely not kansai ben 8') ]

[countersway]

[what the fuck was THAT, majima?? if only noise wasn't forbidden here, you might've heard, off in the distance, the sound of kiryu's head exploding]

Wait. I thought you said you were Majima?

Majima Goro?

[justbeingknife]

[ 'Majima-no-niisan'... did that mean this Kiryu was from the past, or the future? If it was the future, that'd mean Majima had finally gotten back into the Tojo. Then again, it might be that he'd known Kiryu from before he'd gotten TRIPLE SUPER BANISHED, and simply forgotten about it.

It was possible; the Tojo had plenty of goons. Either way, he was apparently Kiryu's senior... ]

That's right. And here I was lookin' all over for ya! So I'm older than ya, huh? Never would've guessed.

Oh, right. Sorry for roughin' up your boy.

[countersway]

[... well, he's certainly all over the map like the majima that kiryu knows, so that checks out, at least.]

My boy?

[justbeingknife]

Yeah. But after all this time, let's not do this over the network. We should meet face to face!

[ yeah, meet up and text each other face to face... like real men.... ]

[countersway]

[as much as kiryu would love to see a familiar ('friendly' probably isn't the best word) face, something about this seems fishy...]

You're not planning something, are you?

[justbeingknife]

Plannin' something? Like what?

[ Look at this innocent face that you can't actually see, Kiryu. Can you not find it within your ancient withered ossan heart to trust your friend? ]

[countersway]

With you, I can never be too sure.

[HE DOESN'T BUY YOUR SWEET BOY ACT FOR A MINUTE, NIISAN.]

[justbeingknife]

You think I'm plannin' on jumping ya, something like that? I ain't looking to pick a fight with you.

[ kiryu-chan you're treating him like he's some kind of monster ]

[countersway]

... You're not?

[bc with majima, EVERYTHING is about fights...]

In that case, yeah, let's meet up. There are things I want to ask you about. Not that there's anything I can do now about anything that happened while I was... away from Kamurocho. But still. I need to know.

[he doesn't want anyone here to know that he spent the last ten years doing time on a murder conviction. :')]

[justbeingknife]

Verdrel Square, then. There's a lot I wanna ask you, too.

[ shit happens, kiryu-chan. no one was going to hold it against you....... probably. ok maybe they would.

At any rate, he was going to be waiting in the garden, sticking out like a sore thumb against the manicured plants of the square. While his hair and demeanor were completely different (he was just... standing there out in the open, waiting politely), surely the eyepatch was a dead giveaway? ]