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[masukukunai]

Hey! This smartphone totally isn’t making any sense-- there aren’t any numbers on it! I can only post a message onto this one place…

Okay, so assuming that there are actually people in here somewhere, where the hell am I? I’m not cool with this empty creepy haunted palace thing, so there better be a good explanation for all this! Because I’ve got

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[video]

[jivitadana]

[Events had just ended, but Wonderland never did let up on pulling in people from different worlds.]

This place is called Wonderland.

[video]

[masukukunai]

[Woah hey video! Yousuke fumbles a bit to get the thing right-side up.]

I heard. And it's not very helpful.

[video]

[jivitadana]

[... Headphones. No, not getting distracted. Minato nodded once, knowing it was true that it wasn't entirely useful information.]

You're in another world. Arriving and departing from here isn't of our own volition.

[video]

[masukukunai]

I got that too.

[siiiiiiigh]

Sorry. I'm not pissed at you or anything. This is just... damn.

[video]

[jivitadana]

It's okay. Understandable.

[Minato nodded again. There really was a lot to explain, of which he was willing to do, but saving the newcomer some time would be ideal so he could adjust that much faster.]

What have you been told so far?

[video]

[masukukunai]

That it's "Wonderland," and I'm stuck here for who knows how long-- and someone mentioned "events"?

[video]

[jivitadana]

Right. Events are based off our memories.

... Can you describe your current location? This might be easier to explain in person.

[Minato left the decision up to Yousuke though; they had only met, and some new arrivals were wary of those who were already here.]

[video]

[masukukunai]

Uhh-- that's okay. I'm near some stairs? And there's just a bunch of rooms down a hall like an apartment building. I don't really know how this place works.

[video]

[jivitadana]

[Stairs? That could mean he was anywhere in the Mansion. Minato kept the communication at video for now since Yousuke was apprehensive, but it was fine with him.]

The number of rooms seems infinite on all ten floors. You can select a free one for your own.

Has anyone explained the mirrors to you?

[video]

[masukukunai]

So they're supposed to do that? Okay, I'm not going crazy. Good.

No, but they're kinda creeping me out.

[video]

[jivitadana]

[When he thought of it again, he had been accustomed to seeing the endless amount of rooms down halls that extended into forever. What was strange before had turned into something normal. Or normal for Wonderland.]

Mn. There's another world on that side. Others that look like us but differ in personality reside there.

[video]

[masukukunai]

Okay. That-- yeah, okay.

[This is surprisingly easy to swallow; he's used to that concept.]

I feel like I should be introducing myself. Uh. I'm Yousuke. Hanamura.

[video]

[jivitadana]

[It still surprised him to some extent when he heard the name, though by now he thought he shouldn't have been since Wonderland seemed fascinated by anyone from his home country or alternate versions of it.]

It's nice to meet you, Hanamura-san. I'm Arisato Minato.

... You're from Japan, I assume.

[video]

[masukukunai]

Aricato-san... Yeah. It seems like a lot of people here are?

[video]

[jivitadana]

Yes. But Wonderland seems capable of pulling in people from any universe it wishes.

From where in Japan are you from, if I may ask? What year was it?

[video]

[masukukunai]

Uh, I'm from Yasoinaba-- it's a backwater kind of town, you probably don't know it. But the year was 2012.