[ please! why is he always being accused left and right everywhere he goes ]
It's the bed. I haven't gotten a good sleep in a long time, so... you know... You can understand how tempting it is?
[ even more so because every time he passes by the bed is just there, not being slept in?? meanwhile he can't remember the last time he slept on a proper bed that wasn't a cot or a thin blanket in the floor ]
[ mikoto's crying inside, this is all going so well, especially since his first instinct is to move away from the door like "no, you're not trapped! look!!" except that just means cornering Toko even further on the other side of the room ]
Is it the w-wrong idea? [POINTS.] W-well forget it! I may be low-hanging fruit, but my b-body already belongs to someone else. So don't even th-think about it! Not even once!
[She takes a thin inhale and crosses her arms over her chest.]
Fine, take the room. I'll just leave then. There's n-no point in trying to hide from any of you ingrates anyway.
Something worthwhile... That's really putting me on the spot, there! Haha...
[ okay.... okay. he makes to sit down on the corner of the bed, but then decides against it and just stands awkwardly to the side instead. this bed is never going to get properly used.
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HE DOESN'T HAVE ANYTHING WORTHWHILE TO SAY. But also if Toko turns and leaves, he looks like maybe he really would cry then. ]
Hey...! It's the "worthwhile" that's tripping me up, okay?! I'm actually a great conversationalist— I took classes on it in university and everything!
[ and look how well that's serving him!!! he can do bland small talk, he can talk endlessly about nothing of importance, but isn't that exactly the problem? ]
Where I'm from, that sort of thing, it doesn't seem like something you'd care about, so...
[this is a fair and reasonable point. If only fukawa were a fair and reasonable person.]
Maybe n-not normally. But we're dealing with s-some stupid cosmic recruiting scheme, so for all I know you c-could be from the l-lost city of Atlantis at the bottom of the ocean! Or a c-crazy world ruled by sh-shrimp overlords, or some high f-fantasy Narnia knock-off with talking animals and evil witches.
So what is it? You're th-the only one here with a Japanese s-sounding name, but m-maybe you've never even heard of Japan at all.
[She clutches at her head, grimacing. Also me, irl, trying to figure out this stupid ass timeline. Watch someone here be a DR superfan and Um Actually me into exploding my entire lore]
It's around...2014. [a beat] So the world...it got...b-b-better?
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Eugh. Th-there's no denying th-that....
Then what were you hoping to do in here? You w-were trying to find a moment's peace too, w-weren't you? Unless you followed me in here on purpose.
[J'ACCUSE.]
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[ please! why is he always being accused left and right everywhere he goes ]
It's the bed. I haven't gotten a good sleep in a long time, so... you know... You can understand how tempting it is?
[ even more so because every time he passes by the bed is just there, not being slept in?? meanwhile he can't remember the last time he slept on a proper bed that wasn't a cot or a thin blanket in the floor ]
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[Looks to it. Scoffs.]
And I'll b-bet it's even more tempting, now that you've trapped a v-vulnerable young girl in here with you.
[ori i am sorry she is like this]
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[ mikoto's crying inside, this is all going so well, especially since his first instinct is to move away from the door like "no, you're not trapped! look!!" except that just means cornering Toko even further on the other side of the room ]
Don't get the wrong idea...!
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Is it the w-wrong idea? [POINTS.] W-well forget it! I may be low-hanging fruit, but my b-body already belongs to someone else. So don't even th-think about it! Not even once!
[She takes a thin inhale and crosses her arms over her chest.]
Fine, take the room. I'll just leave then. There's n-no point in trying to hide from any of you ingrates anyway.
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... now's not the time!!
hands up, frozen in place like a deer: ]
You don't have to leave! I can leave- there's no way I'll be able to sleep now, anyways!
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So you just want c-company after all that? Don't t-tell me you're lonely.
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[ but it comes out as a whine, unconvincing, like everything else that comes out of his mouth ]
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[still. She is not making for the door now.]
Okay, if you're so desperate for company, th-then say something worthwhile already.
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[ okay.... okay. he makes to sit down on the corner of the bed, but then decides against it and just stands awkwardly to the side instead. this bed is never going to get properly used.
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HE DOESN'T HAVE ANYTHING WORTHWHILE TO SAY. But also if Toko turns and leaves, he looks like maybe he really would cry then. ]
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Just start with something simple. Where are you from, or bland small talk like that.
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[ and look how well that's serving him!!! he can do bland small talk, he can talk endlessly about nothing of importance, but isn't that exactly the problem? ]
Where I'm from, that sort of thing, it doesn't seem like something you'd care about, so...
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Maybe n-not normally. But we're dealing with s-some stupid cosmic recruiting scheme, so for all I know you c-could be from the l-lost city of Atlantis at the bottom of the ocean! Or a c-crazy world ruled by sh-shrimp overlords, or some high f-fantasy Narnia knock-off with talking animals and evil witches.
So what is it? You're th-the only one here with a Japanese s-sounding name, but m-maybe you've never even heard of Japan at all.
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[ HOW is it that being the only Normal™ person here is what makes him abnormal ]
Of course I know what Japan is— I live in Ebisu, in Shibuya, and the only Atlantises and Narnias I know are from books!
[ shrimp overlords, though, he's having trouble placing ]
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But also she looks suddenly stricken.]
H-huh? You really are f-from...Japan?
Just regular Ebisu? Then — [A little hurriedly now, taking a cautious step closer] Wh-what's the last thing you remember about it?
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Uh! I dunno, nothing special was going on. I was heading to the train station after work...? Just the regular Ebisu.
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...I see. So it's not the same then. Or maybe—
[She trails off, thinking.]
What year is it?
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Not the same Ebisu? I don't get what you mean. It's 2020... something.
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[IMPOSSIBLE.]
2020? But I'd b-be an ancient hag already? That's several years away yet!
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[ girls and their obsession with ages, smh ]
But okay, then, what's the year, as you remember it to be? [ which is different from what year is it actually ]
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[She clutches at her head, grimacing. Also me, irl, trying to figure out this stupid ass timeline. Watch someone here be a DR superfan and Um Actually me into exploding my entire lore]
It's around...2014. [a beat] So the world...it got...b-b-better?
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Um.
[ can he really say the world's been getting better? can he really? ]
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[this is the first time you see the glimmer of Hope in her eyes]
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oh well! since he's already been branded a liar by literally everybody else here!! ]
...Yes.
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I'm...I-I-I'm...
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