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[knowsitsname]

[On the phone, you may hear a rustling of static, as though someone is running their hands over the receiver. A voice can be heard faintly in the background.]

...looks like a cell phone, but much bigger...odd, why can't I tell what this object is...?

[After about a minute or so, the voice assumes a regular volume.Ah...it seems this is a

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[timidbraveheart]

It's somewhere in the 1950's, in America! I think they call it Mayfield.

[knowsitsname]

America? So this is in the outside world.

But...the 1950s? Are you sure?

[timidbraveheart]

Yeah! It's really weird, because that's like...sixty years in the past for me! And I live in Japan, too! So I don't know how I got sent to the past and to America.

Oh, and you're talking into a regular phone. I don't think there's cell service out here.

[knowsitsname]

A regular phone...? As opposed to a cell phone, then. Yes, I think I've read about these.

But how have I been taken here?

[timidbraveheart]

I dunno! Magic, I guess.

[knowsitsname]

Magic...it must be powerful magic indeed. I don't know of a youkai with this kind of ability.

[timidbraveheart]

Youkai? What're those?

[knowsitsname]

What most humans would consider to be supernatural creatures. Fairies, oni, kitsune, vampires...things like that.

[timidbraveheart]

Oh, I see!

So are there a lot of those in that Gensokyo place?

[knowsitsname]

Quite a lot. Even to the point where humans are something of a minority. I'm half youkai myself.

[timidbraveheart]

Really? That's cool! I'm Mato Kuroi- who're you?

[knowsitsname]

Rinnosuke Morichika. Pleased to meet you, miss.

[timidbraveheart]

Nice to meet you, too, Morichika-san!