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[Hello Network, are you having a peaceful day? Nice and quiet? Good, because this kid is about to ruin it. Half-pint here apparently doesn’t know the meaning of the word "inside voice."]

[Even if he is technically outside, but semantics. He’s still yelling far too loudly for that to not be disturbing somebody.]

Hey, Hinata! Or any of you other fuckwits, what the hell happened!? Where are you??

[What do you mean there are other people who can access this network?]

I think that Naegi bastard might have lied to us. Tch, and here I thought we'd have nothing to worry about with a face that harmless looking. We need to regroup and figure out what went wrong with--

[Just as Kuzuryuu is about to unload some real SHSL spoilers, he cuts off, paling slightly due to a small, nervous voice piping up from somewhere off screen. His head spins around so fast it’s a wonder he didn’t break his own neck.]

U-um. [Now that she’s approaching her friend, the girl is clearly unsure if this was what she wanted to do. He didn't seem very happy about their circumstances - though who could blame him, really?] Wh-who are you talking to? Is Hinata-san there? [Yeah, guess who hasn’t really done diddly squat with her gear.]

Sh-shit!! Tsumiki!?

[The feed ends abruptly, with the shorter boy only looking all the more like he's seen a ghost.]

((ooc: Responses will come from Kuzuryuu or Mikan, probably both. Also a warning for spoiler in castmate threads because there’s just no way those aren’t going to pop up.))

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[Nanami, why did you have to answer you're going to get this dumbass fired up for this. He is all about proving himself to be the strongest.]

Is it? How is that determined? Who's yours?

Well, in the games it's always someone with a starter who is super-effective against yours...so there's a challenge to surmount! Your starter is a Dark and Steel type, so you'd need someone who has...let's see. Fighting, Bug, or Ground...Fighting's good against both Dark and Steel, so your destined rival is someone with that sort of starter, for sure.

[ GUESS WHO HAS A FIGHTING TYPE STARTER, BTW. HE MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE ALREADY PISSED YOU OFF. ]

Mine's Kirigiri-senpai. She's already got badges, so I have to work really hard!

Woah, wait. Back up, types? What are you talking about?

[Okay, look. This is a game world he figures Nanami is probably the best one to be explaining all this shit to him. Because like hell is he going to read the manual.]

And what's a gym or a badge for that matter?

Each Pokemon has a type. [ She tilts her screen sideways; there's a Munna floating lazily nearby, sleeping. ] For example, my starter is a Psychic-type...it basically tells you what their attacks might be imbued with, and what they're strong and weak against. In the games, you could choose from a grass, fire, or water starter. Grass was weak to fire but strong against water; water was weak against grass but strong against fire; fire was strong against grass but weak to water. Learning type effectiveness is key to becoming a good Pokemon trainer.

For example, the first gym is a flying-type gym...so knowing that, I've trained up electric-types.

[ She's still perfectly happy to play Pokedex, apparently. ]

Gyms are in some of the cities in the region...there are eight in Johto in all. They're run by "leaders", whom are trainers of exceptional talent. When you defeat a gym in battle - that is, the leaders as well as their minions - you get a badge to prove you did so, and prize money, and TMs or HMs, which teach your Pokemon special moves. When you get all eight, you're supposed to be able to challenge the Elite Four, who are even higher level...

[Nanami, has anybody ever told you that you have some kind of gift for talking to Kuzuryuu? Look at this shit, he's calm and listening intently. Amazing.]

So a cockfighting tournament with monsters and no set end date?

[...Okay, he can dig this.]

[ She's well-suited to moirailship, if that were a thing that were a thing.

...Also, that's a much briefer way of putting it than she did. Wow. ]

...Yes, that's pretty much it. Oh, that reminds me...there's wild pokemon around, especially in the grass. They might attack...and also you should catch some more. You should have some empty pokeballs for that, and can get more from a store...you just have to lower their health a little before you attempt capture.

[Well he's not the gamer. Of course he gets more to the point.]

That's how ours get stronger, right? So they can take on these gym leaders and actually win?

[That is some tall grass btw. Holy shit.]

Alright, I think I got it. Unless there's something else important you're leaving out.

Hm...I'm pretty sure Hinata-kun is from the end...Saionji-san seems to know what happened to her. Tanaka-kun doesn't seem to be aware of what happened to him. I think he's from much earlier on.

I think only you and Hinata-kun and the students in the other class know about me.

[ He'd probably count this as "important". ]

[Okay well...yes. This is important but it's not what he was talking about, surprisingly.]

I heard from Saionji herself, she definitely knows. But I told her she's not to mention anything to Tsumiki. You probably noticed, but she doesn't remember shit, thankfully.

[He yelled at her a lot and she cried and he's pretty sure that means she's not trying to dupe them.]

I'm guessing you don't want me to tell them about you.

[It's not exactly a question because he truthfully had no intention of spilling those particular beans to anybody.]

...actually, that reminds me. You never did answer my question. Not really. What are you doing here? Or maybe I should have said "How are you here?"

[BECAUSE, YOU KNOW...AI.]

How do you exist outside of the New World Program?

Mm...it's not like I mind them knowing...but to explain that we'd have to explain a lot more, and I don't know that they'd believe me...?

[ Saionji very well might not, anyway. ]

I'll leave it up to Hinata-kun to decide if that's important or not, for now.

[ ...HE'S THE LEADER, HE CAN SORT IT OUT. ]

As to that...I'm not sure. If the dead can come here, though, I don't think it's so odd that I can...although I can't claim to understand it fully myself.

I guess that makes about as much sense as anything else you've said about this place so far.

[None of this makes sense but you know what? Who cares.]

I'll talk to him about it when I meet up with him. There's a lot I think we need to sort out before too many more of us show up here.

[ .........................

Well this is a long pause. ]

[ ............ ]

...Oh, that's right. Kuzuryuu-kun, you missed Christmas.

[ /important topics ]

What? [He...doesn't seem bothered by this, more surprised at the abrupt topic change than anything.]

[That and this little tidbit begs a certain question:]

What fucking day is it?

[...for that matter, what month were they even in back on the island?]

The fourteenth of January...

[ So he also missed a few birthdays...namely Hinata's. ]

I got everyone else presents, so...I'll be sure to get you something as well.

[ BELATEDLY. ]

[...]

[Da fuq?]

Are you sure we're not still on the island somehow? It's really hot For January.

[Like seriously it's 90 degrees. Why is it 90 degrees in the middle of January.]

[Oh, right. There was that other thing she said too.]

You don't have to get me anything.

Yeah...the weather just got really hot recently...it could have to do with a legendary Pokemon, maybe...

[ NOPE. It has to do with Buenos Aries weather for kicks. ]

And everyone said getting your friends something for Christmas was important...

Legendary Pokémon?

[HIS INTEREST HAS BEEN PINGED. WHAT ARE THESE LEGENDARIES AND HOW MIGHT HE ACQUIRE ONE. We'll get back to this Christmas thing in a minute, one thing at a time here.]

[ NOPE, TOO LATE, SHE'S PURCHASING STORMY CYCLING ROAD FOR YOUR GEAR. ]

Pokémon who are the only ones of their species...there's only one of each kind.

And they're powerful enough to control the damn wea-- hold on, this thing is beeping at me.

[And it's not quite the same beep as a message beep so what the hell is this? Download received? What in the--]

[Nanami what the hell.]

[Spoilers: He will actually play it even though it's cheesy as hell. You know, like every once in a while. Just when he feels like it because he's bored, you know not because he likes it or anything jeez!]

...Nanami.

[Well at least she didn't go super out of her way to get him a present and this was pretty predictable of the SHSL gamer so he can deal. He guesses. She's still getting a pretty deadpan look though.]

[ Her work here is done. ]

Hmmm?

[ ...Aaaaand he gets a slightly confused look.

Sure, Nanami, like you don't know what he's deadpanning about. ]

Nothing, never mind.

[He didn't get angry so that's like basically a thank you in Kuzuryuu-speak.]

Back to these one of a kind legendary weather-controlling fuckers though.

[ Are you blushing, Kuzuryuu...? ]

Right. The ones from the game I played were the three legendary birds and Mew and Mewtwo...The birds would be Aricuno, Moltres, and Zapdos. However, I've learned since coming here that there are other legendaries as well...they seem to be connected to each of the different regions. Legendaries tend to be super powerful. It was hard to catch them without a master ball...

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