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[impheired]

[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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[strongestoftheturks]

This place is safe.

[puppetnurse]

Wh-what do you mean that it's s-safe? [She worries about why that would be an important factor, or how he would know that where they came from before wasn't...exactly safe.]

[strongestoftheturks]

Your friend seems worried about something. Just saying that this place is safe.

[puppetnurse]

O-oh. I don't know why he's s-so upset but...i-it's good to know! Th-that it's safe, I mean...

[strongestoftheturks]

You ok?

[ She sure didn't sound ok. ]

[puppetnurse]

F-fine! [She jerked a little as those words showed up on the screen.]

I-I'm fine! Please don't worry a-about me! I-I'm sorry for making you worry!!

[strongestoftheturks]

[ This is going so well.

Rude sighs; let's try this again. He wouldn't feel too comfortable leaving the conversation on a sour, or should he say salty, note.]

There's nothing to apologize for. It's fine.

[puppetnurse]

[It's not your fault, Rude. It's really not.]

A-ah...

[Well at least she didn't apologize again, but she stands there and fidgets awkwardly instead like she feels she needs to say something, but just doesn't know what that something is.

She isn't very good at conversation.]

[strongestoftheturks]

[Neither is he. Rude defaults back to his normal MO when it comes to holding conversations: formal, professional and to the point. He's dealt with people who have been kidnapped or placed in difficult situations, and he's usually able to get them to talk. Usually.]

Do you have anyone you know here, other than your friend?

And don't apologize if you don't.

[puppetnurse]

A-ah, yes! H-Hinata-san is here. And a-a few others from our class..

[Which she was honestly very grateful for...]

[strongestoftheturks]

Good. There's a lot to explain about this place. I'll leave it to them.

Quite a few students here as well. You'll be fine.

[puppetnurse]

I-is there? M-maybe I can just learn by myself...I wouldn't want to inconvenience them...

[And if there's a lot to learn, then that means there's a lot of time they would be wasting on her...]

Oh! A-are you a student too then?

[strongestoftheturks]

[ Suit herself then.]

No.

[ Funny how both her and her friend seemed to assume that the world is populates by students.]

[impheired]

I'm not sure I would call a world inhabited by creatures covered in blades "safe" but I can also think of worse situations.

[strongestoftheturks]

Wild Pokemon won't hurt you if you leave them alone.

[...generally.]

[impheired]

That would imply I'm going to leave them alone. That's how I make my own stronger, right? I'm not scared of getting hurt.

[He's uh...been through some shit. Note the eyepatch, that's not just a fashion statement.]

[strongestoftheturks]

[ Woah son we got us a bad ass here. Talk is cheap though and Rude prefers not to make judgment calls on the basis of an eye patch.

Though if Kuzuryuu's wearing a suit, then Rude will give him points for style. ]

Yeah. Where are you starting at?.

[impheired]

[Hell yeah, you got a badass here! Better recognize.]

[Of course he's wearing a suit. Suits are the best.]

New Bark unless this sign here is lying. Why, is it possible to start somewhere else?

[strongestoftheturks]

[Suits are for motherfuckers with style.]

Just asking. New Bark Pokemon are pretty easy to handle. Shouldn't be a problem for anyone.

[impheired]

Good to know.

So who the hell are you, anyway? Another classmate of Naegi or did some of the other Hope's Peak classes beyond the two of ours manage to get representation here?

[strongestoftheturks]

Name's Rude. I'm not from your school but I know a few students.

[impheired]

Rude, huh? Wait, so you're saying it's not just people from Hope's Peak who wind up here?

[Considering how pretty much only Hope's Peak students and one girl who easily could be a student have responded...it's not hard to imagine why he ran away with this impression.]

[strongestoftheturks]

No.

[Oh boy, does he really need to give the cross-dimensional talk?]

There's lots of other people, not all from your place.

[impheired]

[Well somebody sure needs to. Apparently that wasn't worth mentioning.]

The fuck?? How? Why?

[strongestoftheturks]

[ That... wasn't a reaction he was expecting. He hasn't even mentioned the crazies around Johto yet.]

Why not?