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compnetwork2014-06-05 09:58 pm
thirdarrow) wrote in compnetwork2014-06-05 09:58 pm
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[ The video feed opens to show the inside of an apartment, with a chair directly facing the camera. The interior of the room has been left untouched, and there are no visible decorations save for a single calligraphy scroll hung on one wall. There seems to be no one on-screen.
A few seconds' silence elapses before someone speaks. ]
... Hello? Is this... transmitting properly? [ Pause. ] Ah, it should be.
[ The camera shakes momentarily before settling down again. A young man comes into view from the left of the screen and sits down on the chair.
For those who have met him before, he seems... older, somehow. His features still suggest approximately the same age, but he looks more tired, perhaps even a little unwell. There are dark shadows under his eyes, and his frame shows vague signs of one too many forgotten meals.
His voice still sounds the same, though - calm and composed. ]
I suppose I ought to introduce myself again...? My name is Takakage Kobayakawa, and you may have seen me about during the Thirteenth Hour in the previous week.
From my perspective, eight years have elapsed since my last contact with this city. If I am not mistaken, only a day has passed here - therefore my momentary absence. I apologize if anyone had tried to contact me yesterday, for I was not present and thus could not take your message.
But in any case, I am here again. It has been a long while.
[ He nods, smiling faintly. ]
If there is anything I need to know and have missed, I would appreciate it if you could take the time to update me.
Thank you.
[ The feed cuts here. ]
A few seconds' silence elapses before someone speaks. ]
... Hello? Is this... transmitting properly? [ Pause. ] Ah, it should be.
[ The camera shakes momentarily before settling down again. A young man comes into view from the left of the screen and sits down on the chair.
For those who have met him before, he seems... older, somehow. His features still suggest approximately the same age, but he looks more tired, perhaps even a little unwell. There are dark shadows under his eyes, and his frame shows vague signs of one too many forgotten meals.
His voice still sounds the same, though - calm and composed. ]
I suppose I ought to introduce myself again...? My name is Takakage Kobayakawa, and you may have seen me about during the Thirteenth Hour in the previous week.
From my perspective, eight years have elapsed since my last contact with this city. If I am not mistaken, only a day has passed here - therefore my momentary absence. I apologize if anyone had tried to contact me yesterday, for I was not present and thus could not take your message.
But in any case, I am here again. It has been a long while.
[ He nods, smiling faintly. ]
If there is anything I need to know and have missed, I would appreciate it if you could take the time to update me.
Thank you.
[ The feed cuts here. ]
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[Nanami blinks. Nanami blinks slowly. Disappointment is not something she is used to. She is used to the discomfort of failing a game objective she's given, she is used to feeling guilty when she's assigned a role in a co-op and doesn't deliver what she's supposed to. But.... disappointment...]
Oh..... .....
....I see. Thank you for the information, Takakage-kun.
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There is the slightest hint of a gasp, almost indetectable across the feed, before he lapses into the silence she had started. She seems about to cry, though stopping just on the cliff edge before the inevitable plunge into tears. Unlike Saionji, who used bawling as a tool - Nanami is sincere - and it is this sincere sorrow that cuts him the most.
Why are you so useless? You can't even give her a proper answer. Fool.
He closes his eyes for a few seconds before finally saying something. ]
... I'm sorry. I'll help you figure something out, I promise.
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[ She had done her best, anyway. It wasn't for her to say how much of a part she could continue to play..... some characters were just meant to be support ones, she guessed. The game system's rules were set in place and set in stone.]
I suppose we will, if we're meant to find an answer....
...don't worry about it too much, I was just curious. I hope your eight years were well-spent?
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I suppose you could phrase it that way. [ ... It's complicated, really. There were good things, and bad things. The times were moving, after all... and not everyone survived the tides of change. Such as his father. The one pillar of strength he had always looked to. Leaving behind a home that needed to be protected, but at an increasingly steeper cost.
Ever since, he had always felt that everything was slowly falling apart - too slow to be immediately apparent, but splintering nevertheless. ]
I have learned many things.
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[Nanami was not good at being readable, or reading most people come to think of it, but picking up on certain things was still in her system and a warning sign like this was definitely one of them. Distress signals from the eyes and the lines on one's face were invisible to most people- maybe that was why Nanami could tell, she was the shut-in at the opposite end of the spectrum from "most people"-]
[-these, she had a functioning radar for.]
.... ..... ..... eight years is a lot of time, I guess. A lot of things must have happened.
Take a few days off to rest? You look like you need it.
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[ If memory served, he still had a job to go to. Amongst other things... ]
Though I cannot deny that it will be a few days before I am acclimatized to the city again.
[ Coming here did take some load off his shoulders, though. That, too, was a fact. ]
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[That much should've been obvious, on retrospect. Look at his style of dressing, after all. But eh, Nanami never denied that she wasn't always quick on the uptake.]
....I hope you have a good break here.
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Technology made things much more convenient - if they had such devices back home, it would have made many administrative and menial tasks more bearable. But then again, given how weaponry had advanced with the times as well...
... forces of change such as these were indeed double-edged.]
Likewise. [ For one, not having Hideaki trail him around all the time was a relief... though as always he worried about the boy. ] Things seem to be calmer here.
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[Four centuries. Somewhere in historical Japan then, clearly. Very clearly. The only way to be more obvious about it was to wave a sign saying 'FROM FEUDAL JAPAN, CHECK YOUR HISTORY BOOKS' around.]
[That was true, though, how it was 'quite the difference' between then and now. Lots of things had been invented! Her whole liveblood had been invented. (Of course she was talking about games. xX Gamer girl for life Xx 1234.) The thought of Takakage-kun figuring out phones, or buses, or video games brought a small giggle to her lips.]
You wouldn't have imagined that things would have changed like this, would you? I wonder, what the future might be like.
....
....mmm, calm places were nice.
[Though in her memory, safe spots did not always remain so....]
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Indeed not. Though I suppose I have not given too much thought to the distant future. [ There were always more important and recent things occupying his mind. ] The advance of technology is certainly impressive. Especially the field now known as science - I find it quite fascinating. It does seem that everything can one day be explained and understood... even though I will not live to see that day, it is something to take pride in.
[ The strategist closes his eyes for a moment. ]
Serenity makes it easier for the soul to think.
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And we're stepping stones, but every pebble is important in paving the way to a brighter future.
[Ah yes, science. Nanami owed her life to technology- where would she be without her games.]
[Her sudden abstract speech is a little unusual, her careful deliberation is a little heavier than usual, and it seems like this issue is one she has given thought to before.]
The big picture is hard to grasp, it is. But there are also other things to look to without turning to such ideals! And, mmm.... .....
I agree, quiet is nice.
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I'm glad we think the same way.
[ Though he knows that she hasn't told him much about her home realm. He knew of several other people from modern times, but their worlds all bore marks of some sort of calamity or other...
... perhaps the modern world wasn't as good as it ought to be. ]
You should tell me more about your world sometime.
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[A pause.]
Well.... see you around, Takakage-kun?
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[ The exchange ends here. ]