[005 | voice, Japanese]

[ceiling_cat]

Sorry 'bout that, guys. I'm in one piece.

...Still got it, too, Sho. Pockets're useful that way.

Everybody else all right? And, Shiki, that offer of crash space still open? I'd be obliged. Seems like the old place's a fixer-upper all of a sudden.

Comments

[latteheart.livejournal.com]

Ah...Hanekoma-san! You're alright...I remembered you lived on the fifth floor, so I was worried. Were you...hurt? [She means 'did you die' but she's not gonna say it.]

[greatcuppajoe.livejournal.com]

Well, messed up my leg a little, but it's nothing serious.

[latteheart.livejournal.com]

Good. That's good. A lot of people...weren't so lucky.

Heh...I guess you won't be going back to your old apartment any time soon. Will you have somewhere to stay?

[greatcuppajoe.livejournal.com]

I heard. That's a real shame... things 'round here really aren't built for that kinda stress.

Workin' on it! Got a few friends around here; I'm hopin' one of them will let me crash at their place for a while.

[latteheart.livejournal.com]

Yeah...although it seems the earthquakes have stopped now. But, obviously we still have other problems...

Mm, good luck then! My roommates and I took shelter along with some others at the local bar before the collapse...I'm sure there's room for you there if you really need it...

[greatcuppajoe.livejournal.com]

...Guess so! Wonder if they planned this one, or if it's more of a fluke.

There's a bar? How'd I miss hearin' about that?

[latteheart.livejournal.com]

Eh? Planned...? You think...someone could plan an earthquake?

Ahaha, yes...it's just beyond the high school, not far. This was the first time I've been there, but it was quite nice! Well, considering the circumstances, anyway.

[greatcuppajoe.livejournal.com]

Gonna have to check it out.

...Don't ya think dragging people from a hundred different alternate worlds's more impressive than an earthquake or two?

[latteheart.livejournal.com]

A-ah...! ...I guess I just didn't...think of it like that. But...why? What's the point of doing something like that?

[greatcuppajoe.livejournal.com]

Now that I couldn't say. Might not be them at all... seems like a funny way to affect things, don't it?

[latteheart.livejournal.com]

M-mm...if they have that kind of power, aren't there better things they could be doing with it?

[greatcuppajoe.livejournal.com]

Might be. That all depends on what they want to do... if it's just a reaction, there's definitely better ways ta waste the energy.

[latteheart.livejournal.com]

It's all a little weird, isn't it? A mysterious group of people bringing us all here...and we don't know much about them at all, or why we're here or what they want from us...

...ah, sorry. I shouldn't talk like that. There really isn't much we can do about it, either way, so...

[greatcuppajoe.livejournal.com]

It's pretty weird, all right, little lady. I'm more curious about what's goin' on here than anything else, to tell the truth.

[latteheart.livejournal.com]

Mm...every time you turn around, there seem to be more questions...

...ah. But, I'm sure if we all try, we can find the answers eventually, right? At the very least, it's an...interesting challenge.

[greatcuppajoe.livejournal.com]

We'll figure somethin' out.

So, what kinda questions have you been findin' lately?

[latteheart.livejournal.com]

Oh...the same ones as everyone else, I'd think. How we got here...who brought us...and where they get their power to do so. The power to suppress abilities and...revive the dead. No one from my world can do such things.

As well, the technology here is...these communicators are unlike anything I've seen. I've been trying to figure out what it is about them that's so strange...I think it's because...there's really nothing more to it. It seems like such a simple little device. But it's...have you noticed there's no way to take it apart? There's no apparent power source, and you can't connect anything to it. I don't know...maybe it's just because it's built different, but I can't interface with it at all...

...a-ah, sorry! I got carried away there. B-but other than that, I...

[greatcuppajoe.livejournal.com]

...You've been givin' it a lot of thought, I see.

I tried messin' around with my communicator a bit, yeah. Interestin' little device, isn't it? Seems a shame ta go to destructive lengths tryin' to figure it out, but I might if I ever come across a spare.

Didn't realize ya knew that much about hardware, though, Alpha.

[latteheart.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha...s-sorry for rambling like that...

Yes...you wouldn't want to cut yourself off from the rest of the city, of course. But if you could take it apart to see how it worked...

A-ah, I...I don't really, ahaha. I'm actually not very good with mechanical things. I just thought...in my world these types of devices are usually built with me in mind, so...they're usually fairly easy for me to understand, you know?

[greatcuppajoe.livejournal.com]

No need to apologize, it's interestin'.

What do ya mean, built with you in mind?

[latteheart.livejournal.com]

Eh...?

...AH! Because! Because I'm a robot! S-sorry, I...I should have mentioned that...! Heh heh heh...



[She is so embarrassed.]

[greatcuppajoe.livejournal.com]

...Huh.

So lemme guess, humanoid robots're pretty common where you're from? We haven't got 'em in my world.

[latteheart.livejournal.com]

Ah...common enough, I suppose. Well, I mean, I haven't met many others myself, but that's just me. I don't...get out much, ahaha. But yes...everyone knows about them, so I'm used to people recognizing me for what I am. That's why I forgot.

[greatcuppajoe.livejournal.com]

No reason to apologize. Guess I oughta be payin' better attention, hmm?

Interestin', that. Where are you from again?

[latteheart.livejournal.com]

Heh...not really. I've been told it...can be hard to tell, sometimes. Especially here. Ah, after all, I've seen a lot of things here that aren't normal back home, so...who can tell anything for certain, right?

Ah...I'm from Japan. Though, I've heard others say the same, but they really don't sound the same as my Japan. It might as well be another world.