001 [VOICE - Japanese]

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- n't get how this thing... - Is it like a cell phone? A really old fashioned...

Hey! Hey! I'm - I'm free? I've been freed? Shiro! Yoh-kun! Um, Senji-san? Minatsuki-san...? Anyone...? Are you guys--

How'd I get released without knowing it...? Unless this is...

- Ah! [Clatter as the communicator is dropped] My collar! I'm still! I - candy! Do I

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[no_need_of_fate]

...Kid, I don't understand that language. Put in words.

[voice; japanese]

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- Ah!

[Clatter. He's dropped the communicator again. When he picks it back up, if you listen close, you can tell he's breathing heavily and shakily.]

[Some sounds as he turns the communicator around in his hands]

Words...

[Text]

Who is this?

Re: [voice; japanese]

[no_need_of_fate]

Another guy stuck in this place. Guts. You?

[text]

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I'm - Ganta.

Is this - what is this place?

Re: [text]

[no_need_of_fate]

Discedo. Some crazy world we all got pulled to.

[text]

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What?

How?

I - if this isn't the prison -

Re: [text]

[no_need_of_fate]

Not in the normal sense, but it's not like we have anywhere to go. The land here is too barren. The center of the city is the safest place to be.

[text]

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That isn't what I meant!

- I was in prison - I'm still wearing my collar here, and I only have a couple of pieces of candy, and if this isn't the prison, then -

Re: [text]

[no_need_of_fate]

What about the collar? You can't take it off?

[text]

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No, I can't!

Which means that when my candy runs out, I'm gonna die!

Re: [text]

[no_need_of_fate]

...Why can't you just saw it off?

[text]

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Who knows what'll happen if I try? If they're gonna fit a poison collar on me in the first place, maybe there's bomb or something, too!

Re: [text]

[no_need_of_fate]

Look, I can cut the damned thing off, if you want. As for poisons, I've got a few herbs in my satchel that might help with that.

[text] [1/2]

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But what if there's a bomb? What if the herbs don't work? What happens when I run out of candy? I --

[text] [2/2]

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I -

I'll die!

Re: [text] [2/2]

[no_need_of_fate]

If we prop something between you and it to absorb any explosion, it shouldn't be a problem. We just have to pull it off quick.

Besides, death ain't permanent here. If we die, we just come back to life in a day.