>>@ENTERTHEDRAGON | @ALL

[ryuji]

Anyone else getting a massive wave of culture shock? It's totally kicking my ass right now. I got a nice little gig set up here above a bar, but the catch is I gotta work. But yeah, people are coming and going like crazy around here. Weird outfits, weird hairstyles. Seeing everyone go crazy about freedom is pretty freakin' cool. Nobody needs some stuffy old dude sittin' in a golden high chair sucking his royal thumb and giving out orders all the time.

Not gonna lie, I've seen some pretty big palaces before, but I totally wanna raid the hell out of Versailles.

So anyway, is it like this all the time when you guys get a new mission? I've never been to Paris before, but I kinda know what it looks like from pictures back in my own time? Universe? Good luck getting your head around that shit, it's way too deep for me. I was all excited to see the Eiffel Tower, but apparently it's not gonna exist for like... a hundred years.

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[100% for real, enjoy your trolling session, Ryuji.]

@ENTERTHEDRAGON Photosynthesis?

[That is definitely a new one. /FRYSQUINTS]

[ryuji]

@WEHFRIEND Yeah. It's how you grow. I'm helping you learn to expand your horizons, dude.

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[FRYSQUINTS HARDER.]

@ENTERTHEDRAGON What horizons, exactly?

[ryuji]

@WEHFRIED I'm gonna pull you into the 21st century

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@ENTERTHEDRAGON Why?

[No really, he's confused. PLS EXPLAIN.]

[ryuji]

@WEHFRIED Ah screw it, it's too easy.

Lighten up just means... to relax a bit and enjoy yourself instead of overthinking everything. You've done that before, right?

[He's just going to... hand over the slacker bible to Siegfried.]

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@ENTERTHEDRAGON ...yes, I have. I've never heard that before.

["Lighten up." Okay, it makes sense. NOW HE JUST FEELS EMBARRASSED, WHOOPS.]

[ryuji]

[THAT WASN'T THE INTENT.

Okay, maybe it was.

A little.

Decidedly, though, he likes this guy. He doesn't reek of the typical assholery of adulthood.]

@WEHFRIED Uh... okay, we're all time travelers here. What year are you from? Where I'm from, it's the year of our godzilla lord, 2016

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@ENTERTHEDRAGON I'm from a much earlier time, even compared to this.

[LOOK AT HIM AVOIDING ANSWERING THE QUESTION sorry, Ryuji.]

[ryuji]

@WEHFRIED Is this like one of those things where girls don't give their ages away?

1/3

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[The next three messages are sent at an incredibly fast rate.]

@ENTERTHEDRAGON What?

2/3

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@ENTERTHEDRAGON No, that wasn't what I meant.

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@ENTERTHEDRAGON I'm just... not comfortable talking about it.

Sorry.

[ryuji]

[Those rapid succession responses kind of amuse Ryuji, figuring that he's got this guy pretty flustered. Until... that last one comes in, and he tilts his head, looking down at what he received.

Well, he definitely didn't want to make Siegfried uncomfortable. That's pretty much the last thing he intended to do.]

@WEHFRIED It's cool, bro. [Usage of "onii-san" here just contrasts wonderfully with the French words all around it. He's trying to be cute.] You don't gotta say anymore.

@WEHFRIED Got a name you go by or am I gonna have to call you bro for the rest of my time in COST?

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[He's going to find that Siegfried is easily flustered- and also easily one to apologize if he can.]

@ENTERTHEDRAGON Thank you.

@ENTERTHEDRAGON Saber. My name is Saber.

[NO IT'S NOT BUT THAT'S FINE no one needs to know, shhhhh.]

[ryuji]

[He just... looks at his phone for a few moments.]

@WEHFRIED Your name is Saber too?

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[HOLLOW LAUGHTER INTO THE SUNSET Siegfried doesn't know what to do with this other than to answer him.]

@ENTERTHEDRAGON Yes. There's another Saber?

[KILL BILL SIRENS PLAYING IN THE DISTANCE]

[ryuji]

[Bang bang, he shot me down. Bang bang, I hit the ground~]

@WEHFRIED Yeah. She busted through the wall of the place I was stayin' at the other day like the kool aid man

[CONVENIENTLY LEAVING OUT OTHER...VITAL [redacted] FACTS

But okay, this is weird.

Like. Really weird.

The tone of that text makes him think that there's significance behind two people being named the same thing around here.]

You okay, man?

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[Ah. She. That's convenient. He'd ask more, but he doesn't want to pester Ryuji and make it look as if it's a bad situation.]

@ENTERTHEDRAGON The kool aid man?

@ENTERTHEDRAGON I'm fine. I just wasn't expecting someone else to have that name.

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[ryuji]

[Ryuji just gives information away for free.

Hey Siegfried, did you know that he's a



PHANTOM THIEF? yet?

Don't worry. It'll come up.]

@WEHFRIED Yeah, it's a giant vessel of red, fruit flavored water that has this asshole tendency of crashing through stuff. Uh.

It's not real, it's animated.

Which is the act of drawing and bringing something to life.

Not like, with magic. Just images that you move really quickly, like a flip book.

Am I makin' sense here?

[This kid...]

@WEHFRIED Well I guess I need to figure out a way to refer to you guys separately, then.

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[RYUJI NO.]

@ENTERTHEDRAGON It's similar to a moving painting, then.

[He appreciates it, honestly. As much as he's given information when he's summoned, filling in the holes can get pretty rough.]

@ENTERTHEDRAGON Sorry for making this difficult.

[SUMANAI STRIKES AGAIN]

[ryuji]

[SUMAN-OOOOO]

@WEHFRIED Yeah! A moving painting. That's a good word to describe anime in general.

[He just stares at his phone for a few seconds.]

@WEHFRIED Why are you apologizin' to me? It ain't your fault that someone else has the same name as you.

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[SUMAYESSSSSSS]

@ENTERTHEDRAGON I've never heard of anime before.

@ENTERTHEDRAGON I've still caused some difficulty for you. That's why.

[Someone smack him, please.]

[ryuji]

@WEHFRIED Dude, the difficulty you're causing me is like... gettin' too much green onions in a good bowl of ramen. Worst comes to worst, you can always pick it out.

Are you the type that's gotta apologize a lot? Because I ain't and I'm sure as hell not expectin' it from you.

Also, side note.

Green onions grow by photosynthesis.

Heh.

[gerechtigkeit]

@ENTERTHEDRAGON That's food, isn't it? Ramen?

It's a habit of mine, so yes. Sorry.

...so it's for plants?