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[evokingfool]

This is Minato Arisato. I’ve been absent for the past month due to being sent home. Would anyone mind filling me in on what happened while I was gone?

[He already have the basics from Yu. But what if his roommate was unaware of other things? Hence the question.]

For a lighter question, what are some of your favourite activities/hobbies?

[A seemingly innocent, useless question. But it’s a topic Minato purposely choose for this just to talk to people, either via text or audio or just face to face. As long people talks, he's happy.]

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[notsogrimreaper]

I just asked something similar before I went home! Great minds think alike?

So I can't really fill you in. Sorry

[He just had to comment on the situation. It figures the two of them would be sent home around the same time, and ask almost the same questions on the network.]

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[evokingfool]

It's a good ice breaker question.

[It seems like they both went home at roughly the same time. The difference between them was when they asked this question.]

It's alright. Did you just return recently, am I right?

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[notsogrimreaper]

I found it was good for cheering people up as well.

And I did. Just a little over a week ago now, if I remember correctly.

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[evokingfool]

People get to talk about their favourite things. It can be fun to watch.

[How their faces lighten up, their voices sounding more excited and happy, these things are what Minato like to see.]

Are you doing well since then?

[How's your post-return recovery going? Minato knows how it feels when someone returned to their world alone.]

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[notsogrimreaper]

Yeah. It's nice seeing them cheer up like that.

And I've been just fine. Glad to be back, as strange as that sounds.

[He's just relieved to be out of there. Seeing that destroyed world... it was exactly like what he had expected, but that didn't make it any less painful.]

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[chainsawn]

A lot of days passed.

[ This is the most informative answer.

Clearly the only one Minato needs. ]

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[evokingfool]

[Hello, Urotsuki. He miss chatting with you.]

A month is a lot of days.

Any interesting days?

[chainsawn]

[ Are you sure you missed this weirdness, Minato... ]

One day I cut a monster in half with my chainsaw and both halves kept on running for a little while.

[evokingfool]

[Yes, he's sure. For some odd reason.]

That's interesting. I don't think I fought that particular monster yet. Or I did, but I never cut them in half like that.

[chainsawn]

It's pretty funny to see. I think he must have been confused when both his halves started running in both directions.

[ Although he.. probably wasn't aware of that.. that's not how bodies work, Urotsuki. ]

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[absentapothecary]

[She's still figuring out this 'network' business, but really, how hard can it be?]

i have come to enjoy sewing and tailoring, although sometimes it can be frustrating as well. cooking is another fine enough way to pass the time, but i find myself wishing that i could enjoy the results more.

[Shift key? What is the shift key?]

what do you mean by being sent home???

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[evokingfool]

I've done some sewing before with a friend, but I don't have his level of design skill.

[Minato's are more practical and simple in design. Nothing compared to Bebe's bolder choices.]

It's unfortunate, since cooking can be fun to do. Especially if you can eat the food with a friend.

[But revelations ruined it a little.]

I was accidentally sent back to my home world for a while.

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[absentapothecary]

i am better at just using patterns. i haven't tried to design anything myself yet. maybe i should. i seem likely to have some free time here.

[If only she knew how unpleasant the answer to her last question actually was...]

that can happen? but aren't the worlds destroyed? they seem to support no life at all. how could you survive?

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[evokingfool]

You should try. You might discover a talent for it. If you don't, it's still fun to design something by yourself.

[Her other question is easier for him to answer this time, now that he's more aware of what's going on. As well as the nature of their current existence.]

Yes, our worlds are destroyed. Only our souls was brought into the tower because our bodies was destroyed. Which means just my soul returned to the world.

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[absentapothecary]

i will have to try it, if time allows.

our bodies were destroyed??? really???

[There's a significant pause in the electronic conversation, before another line appears.]

that would explain how you could return safely.

i must research this further. this changes things so much.

[terreifying]

were u away b4 or after the thing
u know
the thing with the collar boycott

[evokingfool]

I was away a little after the collar boycott.

I think another thing was happening when I disappear.

[It's the shadow people thing.]

[terreifying]

oh ok
then you've heard about what happened right after the boycott, right?

the stuff about fighting administrators etc

[evokingfool]

Possibly. Would you mind clarifying?

[terreifying]

not over the network
its important so gotta keep it private
can u meet me somewhere

[neverbeamemory]

Good to see you've returned, Minato.

[As the more swordsman they have in the Tower the better right? For cannon fodder if nothing else. Even if their training sessions had stopped abruptly - Minato's use in provoking Ryoji wasted, Sephiroth has no reason to particularly hate him.

Not very many people would have the courage and determination to take the training he had briefly offered.]

[evokingfool]

It's good to be back, Sephiroth-san.

[For better or worse, there are people in the tower. It's always his main reason for enduring the administrator's games and experiments. Of course, that includes...not so nice people. He won't deny that.

As for Sephiroth? Despite the threats and who knows what Sephiroth did to Ryoji, Minato was more wary of the swordsman instead of hating him. He still respect Sephiroth's skills with the blade, even after he stop attending the lessons.

Wary, polite and respectful, but no hate. Yet.]

Did anything happen during my absence?

[neverbeamemory]

[Still with the honorific. Sephiroth makes a mental note to find out exactly why Minato felt the need to add that to his name, but then it's not really all that important.]

It's been rather subdued, I find.

[Despite the phantoms, despite the death - compared to Jason's previous cycle Sephiroth had found it rather less infuriating on the whole - even if in the end the exhausting effects had been lethal. It had been almost disappointing, but Sephiroth won't go that far and state such over the network. Minato would have to learn for himself of the psychelesis phantoms, he's seen a couple of them around since then.]

I see the menu is greatly improved. ['-but one could wonder why' is not typed.]

[evokingfool]

[He still haven't learn the extent of what the phantoms' presence can cause, yet. But it's not hard to assume it's not good for their well-being. Minato just want confirmation of the facts and he can amend his assumptions for them.

Minato read the line about the menu.]

It's not Jason's month, so I would assume so.

[It's just an illusion, a glamour to trick their senses. But Minato would still appreciate savouring the food at the cafeteria, a simple pleasure in any life.]

[neverbeamemory]

Right.

[He could say so much more, but not to Minato and most certainly not on the network.]

It's certainly a lot cooler this month as well.