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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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[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.

[evokingfool]

The colder seasons, or autumn at least, are coming in.

[If he's getting his dates right. Minato quickly counted in his mind. It should be roughly autumn now, even if the weather is simulated and fake.]

Which means we have to be prepared once it's winter here.

[neverbeamemory]

Yes

[There is a long pause before more text appears on the screen. While Sephiroth tries to gauge the countdown versus the admin cycles - basing them on months as that's what they appear to be.]

Our last winter, if circumstances are to be believed.

[evokingfool]

[Minato stare at the screen. A big reminder of their race against Ruana's challenge.]

Unless our circumstances change, yes. In three months, it would be our last winter.

[At the end of this year, how long do they have left? Half a year?]