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[Japan is outside, sitting at one of the cosplay cafe tables, pounding away on his laptop. He's not exactly dead to the world because he doesn't really want anyone peeking over his shoulder. In the event someone does, he's typed it all up in Japanese so a glance would only reveal so much

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[supersizedpower]

[Surprise! Reading over your shoulder with a really intense look on his face.]

Japan...

[fuelefficient]

Uwah! America-san!

[slamming the screen down]

[supersizedpower]

...

So, for that one, do you use the decoder ring in Sugar Pops or the decoder ring in Cocoa Puffs?

[fuelefficient]

[He almost thought the jig was up.]

C-Cocoa Puffs. They are part of a balanced breakfast, I believe.

[supersizedpower]

Oh.

Yeah, I was gonna say, I thought I'd seen all the secret codes around here, but that's a new one!

[fuelefficient]

...this is codenamed hiragana.

[supersizedpower]

Sounds tricky.

How's it work?

[fuelefficient]

Instead of having symbols to represent letters, it has symbols to represent certain sounds.

[supersizedpower]

Except instead of symbols it has weird little squiggles?

Cool!

[fuelefficient]

Ah...yes. It is hiragana for Japanese words. If I wished to use a code for American words, I would use katakana, which is more blockier.