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[For the most part, Lancer had been avoiding the comms. He knew where to find his friends and Master in person. The language barrier wasn't that much of a problem because both he and Ayaka spoke Japanese, and most of the other Servants should be speaking it too unless they had been caught up in the language switching.]

[However, right now, there was something he really wanted to ask the tower at large. That is, something besides whether or not he could still communicate with his fellow Servants. That morning, he had found a stack of papers in his room. Papers that told him he was now a janitor. He's not quite sure what it means.]

[So now he's standing at a console, papers in hand. He also has a pen which he snatched from one of his roommates, just in case he ran into someone who didn't speak the same languages that he did. He speaks in English first, as slowly and clearly as he can.]

Hey, my name is Lancer. How many of you can still understand me? How many of my kind can still understand me? If you understand what I am saying, contact me back, maybe with video. I have a question I want to ask.

[He repeats the words in Japanese, and then Gaelic on the off-chance that someone can speak that.]

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[He lifts the (English) paperwork up to the screen]

これ。何だ、これ？

Uh, it... it looks like English. I think.

I can't read it right now. Sorry. The Tower made it so that I could understand this and another language instead of English...

くそ。。。

[He sighs.]

じゃ、よみあげてか？

Um, sure. If you can read it.

俺は今から用務員になるということ。だから、聞いてる。何だ、これ。

...Oh!

Um, sometimes residents of the Tower get those notices... you're going to be working as a janitor alongside the drones. Sorry.

金を貰わなくて、それに、いらないさ。なぜ仕事をしなけばならねか？

[He could do events, to protect Ayaka if anything. But he didn't like being told out of the blue to run errands for people he disliked.]

...Um, how long have you been here?

三ヶ月ぐらい。どした？

[Three months...]

Well. I don't know how or why exactly you got chosen for that job, but the admins... they might punish you if you don't do it.

They punish people for very arbitrary reasons here.

[Three months. Not enough for him to learn everything about the tower, but long enough for him to get cocky about what he did know.]

<span title="Huh? What sort of punishments? Monsters again?>は？どんな罰ゲー。また獣か。