001 [audio --> video]

[chasingkid]

Ah-- no, that's.. audio... now I think this is-- aha...

[After this satisfied chuckle, the audio feed turns into a video, and the proud, grinning face of a young man with brown hair appears on-screen. He's seated on a rock on Route 29, judging from from faint background music, and a dainty looking Vulpix is just visible in the corner of the screen,

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[video]

[usedtact]

Huh, I never really thought about clocks working the same way here...

[ he seems a bit lost in thought, but then perks up again when he realises that he contacted this guy for a reason: ] I hate to break it to you, though, but you're definitely not anywhere close to where you were before. This place is called Johto.

[video]

[chasingkid]

I cannot believe that my clock is not working right. It only loses 0.001 seconds every year...!

[Ahem.]

I... was told that, yes. Something about Pokémon, and video games becoming reality. Are you from another world, as well?

[video]

[usedtact]

And you know this... how? Not to pry, dude, but that seems a little bit too precise.

Yeah. It's a video game from the early 90s where you catch and train Pokemon for battle. If you've heard of it, there's a pretty good chance that we're from the same world.

[video]

[chasingkid]

Precision is the key to everything, especially solving a mystery. As a detective, I must always keep that close to heart. [Insert sage nod here.]

That sounds around the time I come from. I was on a plane on the way to London, from Japan, when I arrived here... my name is Saguru Hakuba. And you are...?

[video]

[usedtact]

Ohhh, you're one of those types, huh? You may not believe it, but I've got some detective experience myself. [ rueful smile. ]

I'm Yosuke Hanamura. Actually, Japan's where I was before I arrived here, too-- I live in Inaba.

[video]

[chasingkid]

Oh! Is that so? Then we're comrades-- tell me, what kind of cases have you solved? I usually stay in Tokyo when I visit Japan, but I have experience with cases across the nation.

[video]

[usedtact]

[ rofl yosuke never actually expected this guy to react that way. he chuckles awkwardly, searching for words. ] Oh, well, you know... there were these murders in Inaba and I-- er, and a group of my friends-

[ trying to put this delicately.... can't be talking about summoning parts of his psyche to fight monsters ]

W-We were... informants! We worked pretty closely with the police, I mean.

[video]

[chasingkid]

---Murder in Inaba?

Strange.. I have never heard of such a case before. My father is the Metropolitan Police Chief, but he has never told me about a group of teenage informants, either.

[....Well this is peculiar.]

[video]

[usedtact]

Oh, uh, well... the details were pretty hush-hush, and Inaba is a really small town.

[ awkward retcon goin on here ] Y-You were probably busy with more important stuff, anyway.

[video]

[chasingkid]

No.

I make sure I am aware of everything as not to miss a single clue. If anything happened, I would know. [Pompous much?]

[video]

[usedtact]

... Maybe we are from different worlds, after all.

[ not to worry. he reminds him of naoto. ]

[video]

[chasingkid]

Different worlds...

Perhaps. Are there people from worlds other than ours, as well, Mr. Hanamura?

[video]

[usedtact]

It's definitely looking that way. I mean, I'm pretty sure I met a dude that wasn't even human.

[video]

[chasingkid]

Not human, you say?

Why, that sounds pretty absurd...!

[video]

[usedtact]

Man, if you think that's absurd, you're gonna have a hard time here. I think first place in the "weird" competition goes to the fact that we're in a video game.

[video]

[chasingkid]

Ah-- yes. That too.

I have never played the game much, myself, so it does not occur to me as prominently that Pokémon is a video game... I do think the situation is very interesting, however.