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[i_love_taiyaki]

[The feed is an EXTREME CLOSE-UP on Renji's eye as he peers into the lens, then pulls the device back and tilts it on its side. It's pretty obvious he doesn't really know what he's doing with this technology nonsense. He definitely looks a bit worse for wear--he's bleeding visibly and appears to have scorch marks all over his face and upper torso

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[heartbetween]

[Oh hey, he recognizes you! Vaguely. From the eleventh, he thinks, and...didn't Byakuya mention him before?]

Hey, calm down a sec! You're not anywhere you think you might be. This is Anatole--it's a completely separate world from Soul Society or the human world. Or Hueco Mundo for that matter.

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[i_love_taiyaki]

[Oh, okay, someone who's actually gonna give answers-- Wait, someone who knows about Soul Society?]

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[i_love_taiyaki]

[.......You look vaguely familiar. Actually you kinda look like Ichigo dunked his hair in ink, but the voice ain't right. WTF.]

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[i_love_taiyaki]

Do I... know you?

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[heartbetween]

[...This will possibly be awkward. On the one hand, he could just give his name and rank now, and then deal with the usual 'you're supposed to be dead'. Or he could explain that first and risk confusing him further...hm.]

Well...at the least you've probably seen me around at some point. I'm Kaien Shiba, lieutenant of Squad Thirteen.

[Going with the first option, it seems. Let's see how this goes.]

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[i_love_taiyaki]

[This face for approximately seventeen seconds.]

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[i_love_taiyaki]

--Wait, you can't be serious. This is some kind'a prank, right?

[heartbetween]

[Sigh.]

I'm completely serious, and if you don't believe me, you can ask Rukia, Ukitake-taichou, or Hisana Kuchiki.

[Please, please let that get the message across.]

[i_love_taiyaki]

Oh, Ukitake-taichou's here, too--?

[Wait. Brain possibly just broken.]

Did you just say what I think you just said?

[heartbetween]

Yes.

Hold on, here--

[A delay for a few moments while he digs up this info post]

This place brings people in from different times. Neither of us were dead when we got here. Though sometimes it brings people in from after death too.

[i_love_taiyaki]

[There's a bit of a delay here as Renji reads all of this and lets it sink in for a minute. Holy crap.]

So... You and... and Rukia's sister, you guys are... [He rubs the crown of his head here, like he's getting a headache.] You're still dead, you were just brought to this place before you died?

Isn't this some kind'a time paradox or something?

[heartbetween]

Yeah, that's basically it.

The Door is rarely consistent with timelines. It happens to everyone, really, in some form or another.

[i_love_taiyaki]

[His hand's still on his head; this is a lot to try and process all at once.]

Wow. Uh... So, nice to meet'cha, anyway, Shiba-san. Would that it could'a been under less supernatural circumstances.