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[ . . . This is not where she last was. Although she's having trouble remembering what she was last doing (it's a blank slate). So when she comes to somewhere down the beach a ways, she's disorientated enough all ready. Not to mention waking up with a strange note and in a place like this! She was at the academy, wasn't she? Walking farther and farther into the depths of the jungle, she fiddles with her communicator.

This is a phone, isn't it? Or something like it, she thinks. So even if she doesn't know how to. When it flickers on, she's got a long, metal, staff like rod in one hand, hanging, for the moment, casually at her side. Otherwise her brows knit in concern as she stares into the feed.]

This is on, right?

[She clears her throat.]

Headmaster? Zero...?

[Although she doesn't know if she should expect to hear them. If she's been captured somehow, then she doesn't expect them to be around. Which is-- a troubling thought, too. Even if she'll deny it to Zero, she can't help but to feel anxious when on her own. And now she's lost and can't remember anything, try as hard as she might. The grip on her weapon tightens lightly.]

Um... excuse me! Can anyone else see or hear this? _{Can anyone here understand Japanese?} [ . . . This certainly isn't anywhere near to home, after all. M-Maybe she needs to try another language. Her English is abysmal though, and she doesn't know any other languages.]

H...elp.

[Er... 'Help' is the right word, isn't it? But she's not sure how to communicate anything past saying hello and her name. Or if anyone where speaks English to begin with. Instead she falls back on what she knows.]

I've been kidnapped and given a strange note. I need the authorities... or a...ranger? I don't know where I'm at, but it's no where near home. If anyone at all can please help, let me know.

[A pause, before her face darkens.]

And if this is only connected to the people responsible... you have a lot of explaining to do! Kidnapping high school girls is the worst! Believe me, you've made a BIG mistake!

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Well... I can understand you just fine, so your language skills seem impressive already.

[Lucky for her, really. It's odd that so many foreigners can speak so fluently, though.]

I don't speak English or any other foreign languages very well.

[ he was talking generally! if he'd meant just him, he definitely would have said arrogant. ♥ also wealthy! and handsome! etc etc ]

[ but that statement is critically distracting, so you'll have to give him a second ]

--Yeah, as much as I'd like to take the credit, I really can't this time.

[ he tilts the communicator in his hands, running his fingers over the surface, his eyes darting just a little as he takes it all in, and then he says ]

Do I have an accent? Any -- particular dialect? I know some Osaka-ben. [ amused to think maybe that's how he sounds, but he doubts it. his own company's ridiculous on the fly translating software isn't there yet. ]

Osaka...?

[While she comes from Japan, it's vastly different from what one might expect elsewhere. Mankind has has been wiped almost completely from the face of the Earth a few times. So names and places have changed drastically. In fact, it resembles a more Gothic European city. But they use chopsticks, and have former remnants and traditions from the ~~super distant~~ past.]

You have a bit of an accent, but I can still understand you clearly. It's not bad.

[ his gaze is back on her face instantly, and more intent than before. he runs through historical names in his mind, then fixates on her school uniform. she can't be from the past.

right?

mwi is a bitch. ]

What would you call the accent? Do I sound like a gaijin? Sorry to press, it just might be incredibly vital. [ he said, with a dismissive hand gesture ]

[She doesn't really understand all of the questions. She nods, though, after a moment, blinking at him through the feed.]

I'm not sure that I can place the accent... I haven't heard it before. But it doesn't sound Japanese.

Thanks for playing, you've been great.

[ he swaps topics quickly ]

You know what's really funny, though? I'm not actually doing the multilingual thing right now.

Huh...?

[She hears and understands you just fine, Tony, don't joke with her.]

. . . Are you trying to confuse me?

No, no. If I were trying to confuse you, I'd break out the particle physics. Although, who knows? Maybe it translates that too.

[ let's give it a try ]

The range of values is equal to negative g squared and multiplied by e to the negative power of mass times range, over range.

[ or: V(r) = -g^2 * ((e^(mr))/r)

well, it's sort of Japanese? ]

O-Okay, stop, stop, I don't understand any of that...

[You can't just spit out equations and math at stupid people okay!?? Gah, don't give her a migraine.]

All right, so... [Er...] You're not...speaking Japanese?

Good to know.

And I'm really not. [ let's try French! ] Je suis désolée mais je ne parle pas le Japonais bien.

Anything that time?

. . . I don't understand any of that, either.

That's what I thought. It doesn't make any actual sense, but it's what I thought.

You should make it a point to learn French, by the way. Great language. Everything you say in it sounds beautiful. Où sont les toilettes? I just asked you where the nearest bathroom is, but didn't it sound great?

Ehh... but we're conversing.

[This is a lot stranger than she thought. Right. Japanese. She speaks Japanese. So she'll speak in Japanese to him... going off his example, of course. Japanese.]

お手洗いは何所ですか。

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--Yeah, like that, only prettier. [ amused. baby Japanese, he can do. ]

What did you do that time? Were you, like, really concentrating? [ assuming you've been speaking Japanese this whole time, that's all he's got, since he understood that, but it was definitely not "in English" this time. ]

I just thought 'I really want to speak Japanese'. I made a deliberate effort.

T-Though I didn't feel like I was doing anything different before. [She doesn't really understand it herself]

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Definitely interesting.

What languages do you speak? Besides the Japanese.

I don't... just Japanese.

[ 'Help' was her attempt at English.]

Um... Hello... my name is Yuuki. It is good you- ['you meet?' No...] It is good to meet you.

[ . . . Wow, her English is embarrassing. She only knows random words and very simple phrases. Like 'thank you'.]

Er, that's... probably the extent of my English.

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[ aww, Yuuki ]

Yeah, I can see why you were hoping for an interpreter. Well, at least you won't have to worry about that.

[ his attention slips down to the communicator ]

[ . . . She wont even argue the fact that she genuinely would have needed one. Miming everything just doesn't sound appealing. For a couple moments she watches him silently.]

. . . Do you...think it is the communicator that translated it all for us?

Occam's razor.

[ is that enough of an answer? he runs his thumb over the side of it, considering ]

Are you speaking a foreign language again?

Heh. Apparently.

Aren't you in high school? What do they teach you?

[ almost a genuine question. his high school experience was not typical. ]

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