[ 03: February 13th | Video ]

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[The feed switches on to Kanji sitting in a chair facing backward, though the frame only catches the bottom half of his face as he pulled his arm back. He was never good at filming...]

...Yo. Had a lotta shit to do lately, so this entry's kinda late.

[And that was when an odd jingling started from somewhere behind him. The teen ignored it, taking a fist and slapping it against an open palm.]

I partnered up with Tifa! We're livin' in Death City Heights, Building 6, so don't bother lookin' in Murder Manor or Creeping Crypts.

[A lopsided grin.] Heheh... Witches're seriously screwed now!


[And with that, he cuts off the feed to the public, opens up a private message and hesitates, heart pounding. He could do this. He could do this...!]


[Private: Naoto]

[He'd turned his head away before the private feed started, arms tightly folded as clammy hands were balled into fists.]

Y-... y-y'free tomorrow!?

[Did his voice crack? Of course it did.]

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Yeah, no problem.

[It had been a pleasant surprise to find out how well they worked together in the kitchen. Tifa had always been the lone cook, the one making all the meals at 7th Heaven so help was extremely welcome.]

I've never heard of foxes liking something like tofu though... is that a legend?

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[He went to grab the pot and rolled up his sleeves before he measured out the dashi, mirin, and sugar, back turned to her.]

Legends, storybooks... personal experience. There's this shrine next to home that's got this fox n' her babies livin' around it. Y'know, like that painting I got on the wall?

I leave 'em food sometimes, but this one time I had some leftover fried tofu, I put it out and the kits were kinda dukin' it out over it. Ended up runnin' home to make more before they killed each other.

[Ugh... it made him kind of homesick, but didn't let that through as he poured the ingredients into the pot and moved to put it on the stove and set it to boil. Iza decided that because both of Her People were home now, one of them was bound to give her an extra treat from the cupboard. For now, she only watched, idly licking a paw.]

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[Tifa's attention was drawn to Iza as the cat felt it time to greet them, smiling affectionately her 'adopted' cat. It was nice hearing stories from Kanji's past too--a lot of it sounded so normal to her.]

I never would have thought of that as something they would like... but then again, most of the animals from my world would have probably ate anything. [Or at least, the ones in Section 7, where everyone was starving.]

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[To be fair, Kanji's life back home was - all things considered - rather normal compared to most. When you factor in the murders, the world inside the television, and Personae... well, you start delving into territories just as fantastical as the rest.]

What kinda animals?

[Come to think of it, he didn't know too much of her world, and couldn't discern much from her appearance. He knew people from the distant past, the distant future, and one or two who'd actually seen a dragon up close... well, other than the dragon that was living in Death City.]

[He stirred the contents of the pot and went to find the udon noodles in the upper cupboard.]

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Well, there's a lot of animals that are here, like cats and dogs, of course. But there's some that people here seem to have never heard of, like the chocobo.

[Glancing over at him, she felt an explanation was in order since he'd probably never heard of them either.]

They're birds, but they're big enough to ride on. People use them for a lot of things like transport and even races, but most live in the wild.

[She considers] And there's lots of creatures that are more monster-like, that attack people.