[08] [Video/In Person for Azalea]

[k9tantei]

[The Gear, for once, isn't being carried by a certain Jynx; instead it's in the claws of Sojobo, the Murkrow, circling down as Heiji is leaving the Azalea gym. Heiji stops to hold the door open for Baskerville, who struts out into the blazing sun with his head and whiplike tail high; a few curls of smoke follow him out the door, and through the

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[bakaitoukid]

Goldenrod?

[snrk] Whitney cries.

[video]

[k9tantei]

Sore loser, eh?

Sounds fun. [/sarcasm]

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[bakaitoukid]

Lots of fun. She makes up for it by being cute, though.

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[k9tantei]

I'm sure this should be special, then.

I guess if you've got personality problems, you've got to make up for it somewhere, eh?

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[bakaitoukid]

C'mon, you don't need to be that harsh on her. She cries, but she's not that bad.

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[k9tantei]

Will have t'see when I get there. Though, I can see where it could get kinda upsetting, havin' a job that sorta sets you up t'get periodically flattened.

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[bakaitoukid]

[snort] For being some of Johto's 'strongest trainers,' they aren't that tough.

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[k9tantei]

It's honestly kinda weird. I can see where they'd be a problem for someone new an' fresh outta New Bark, but it's more like they're some kind'f trial meant t'be passed than "the top ranks".

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[bakaitoukid]

Video game logic, right? Their levels don't change in the games, so why would they change here?

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[k9tantei]

[You can just SEE the moment where the Rational Detective side of his mind tries to rebel against the inherent lack of reason in "video game translated to reality still conforms to video game conventions" and trying to push that against fifty different things like "Does this mean their pokémon are somehow different creatures" and "BUT THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE" before the gears jam and he scrunches up his face in frustration.]

I gotta stop tryin' t'expect this place t'make normal sense.

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[bakaitoukid]

[hehehe....]

Good detective.

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[k9tantei]

Just because it doesn't want t'make normal sense, doesn't mean it can't be figured out ... just means I've got t'deal with it by figurin' out its rules.

[DETECTIVE SULK. And stubborn detective.]

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[bakaitoukid]

[eyebrow quirk]

What is there to figure out?

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[k9tantei]

How we got here, why we're here, what this place is - it's there, so there's gotta be some sense of why it's here an'how it works, even if it's not easy t'find. We've got plenty'f little clues, like th'funny comas where people end up gettin' "back home" somehow, an' people from th'same world who turned up here from different times. I've got a couple theories, just not enough t'call'em more than that.

[GDIT THERE IS ALWAYS AN ANSWER.]

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[bakaitoukid]

[Kaito pauses thoughtfully]

... there's gotta be a 'how' and a 'why.' I've been looking for those answers for over a year now.

As for a 'what,' I'm a bit more skeptical about that. Johto science doesn't work the same way science at home does.

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[k9tantei]

[Heiji stretches and leans back, hands behind his head.] That's th'thing, really; there's some things that're similar enough t'home t'fool ya, but we're stuck tryin' to do things from scratch - scientific method of observation an'deduction still works, just not th'information people got from it in our world.

Y'had anyone close t'you that was from a wildly different time, or that had one of those funny comas?