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[leafgreentantei]

"All right, I just have to sort the facts," Kazuha murmured, leaning against a table in the lobby as she looked around. "You were heading home after aikido practice. There's no tournament nearby, you didn't solve any murder cases recently with someone swearing revenge....though I suppose someone could have without shouting it? But there's no pain

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[azureskiesmagic]

It was probably lucky Aoko has in her civilian clothing as she passed by Kazuha. Not that she necessarily would have minded speaking to what was clearly a detective as Kaitou Kid (and possibly one from her world, unless there was another universe with a Detective Toyama), but the more time spent around a bunch of intellectual teenagers in disguise, the more she risked her identity being discovered.

Yes, greeting her as Aoko was just fine. Which is how the young girl found herself approaching Kazuha with a tentative smile, hands linked behind her back.

"You sound like you're new," she offered in a friendly manner, "I've noticed that a lot of people ask that same question right when they arrive."

[leafgreentantei]

Kazuha blinked at the new girl, pulled out of her train of thought. "Ah, yea-RAN-CHAN?!"

[azureskiesmagic]

Aoko started once, recoiling in surprise as she blinked at the detective. "Ran-chan...? My name is Aoko!"

Aoko certainly didn't dislike her rival, but she honestly didn't think she looked that much like Mouri... did she?

[leafgreentantei]

"Aoko...? But you...you look exactly like her!" Kazuha said, standing up straight to look over the girl. "A-ah...at least...at least at first..." She said, frowning as she looked over Aoko more slowly.

"....shorter, messier hair, not as busty as I remember..." She'd only seen Ran's full figure a few times, after all. "But still....it's really close."

[azureskiesmagic]

-- what was that about not being as busty as Ran? Aoko's gaze narrowed in annoyance at Kazuha, and she propped her hands onto her hips with a huff. She was very much aware that she had a boyish figure, and almost no curves to speak of, but...

"You didn't have to point that out," she mumbled, before she shook her head and mustered up another welcoming smile (thought it was somewhat strained this time). "So you did just arrive here, right?"

[leafgreentantei]

"Point out...ah! It's not an insult! Ran-chan is really too busty. You're a more reasonable size," Kazuha said, offering up her hands in surrender.

"...and yeah, I did."

[azureskiesmagic]

Aoko eyed Kazuha for a moment longer, before she decided to go easy on the detective this time and give her the benefit of the doubt. Her strained smile softened.

"Mmm... I guess the first thing I should tell you is that this place is really strange," she started, her hands dropping from her hips and behind her back again, "No one ever remembers how they got here. They just remember that they did somehow."

[leafgreentantei]

Kazuha looked curious at that. "No one...? So does that mean a lot of people have been brought here?"

[azureskiesmagic]

Aoko nodded. "And you'll meet people you think you know, too." This was always the hardest part to explain. "Except you won't really know them at all, because they'll be from a completely different world than you."

[leafgreentantei]

Kazuha blinked. "...what? Different world?"