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[sonicpunching]

[ACTION, 1331 Benny Road and around, morning.]

[Citizen of the lovely Mayfield, if you're happening to be living around 1331 Benny Road, I bet you will not notice a scream of agony coming out from the said house.

What and who, you ask? Akihiko Sanada, who apparently is in total horror of realizing that he just slept with a drone woman.]T-That

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[enemyradar]

[Aw, poor new guy.]

Hey, it's okay! Calm down. That's just a drone. She's really nothing to worry about.

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[sonicpunching]

[NOTHING!? I just slept with her, good lady!]

S-she's my wife! How could I not worry about her? [Hello, I am Akihiko Sanada, and I do paranoid the best when it comes to romance.]

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[enemyradar]

Oh! She's not really your wife. She just thinks she is.

Um...an easy way to say it would be that she's brainwashed.

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[sonicpunching]

[Panic downgraded to safe level.] I-Is that so? That's... kinda reassuring.

[There'll be a pregnant pause as Aki tried to calm himself beforehand before continuing:] Brainwashed?

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[enemyradar]

Yeah. Here, there's this thing called droning. It pretty much makes people believe they've lived here in Mayfield their whole lives. They have fake memories and they don't act like themselves. It can happen to anyone.

Your "wife" is droned.

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[sonicpunching]

Hmm, and how do we cure them? [Because all that screams for Apathy Syndrome v.2.]

S-Still, I just slept with her...

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[enemyradar]

We can't really cure them. Once someone gets droned, all we can do is let it run its course. Some people come back, others don't. And the "natives" are supposed to have been like that from the start. Droning's really just another way this town messes with our heads.

...Wait, what do you mean by that? Because, if you mean...[She can't really bring herself to finish that sentence.} I-I'm pretty sure you didn't.

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[sonicpunching]

So, they're basically turned into some emotionless robot that is incurable, right?

[Gosh, this is super awkward.] Well, y-you know... It's just that I'm afraid I've had her... [ajsldaj] ...You know...

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[enemyradar]

Yeah, pretty much.

Um...unless you purposely did that, I don't think you guys...did...anything. [Or she hopes. Who knows with this town anymore?]

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[sonicpunching]

I-I definitely would not do that with purpose! [And suddenly the topic goes into whether Akihiko had sex with his drone wife or not.] N-Not sometime soon, at the very least.

...Thanks for the information, miss-[Name?]

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[enemyradar]

Y-You really shouldn't! Ever. You can just ignore her, really.

Oh, I'm Rise Kujikawa!

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[sonicpunching]

T-that is what I just planned, actually.

Nice to meet you, Rise. I am Akihiko Sanada. [Trying to find a decent topic here...] So Rise, how long have you been here?

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[enemyradar]

Okay, good.

Nice to meet you, too! I've been here for about two months.

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[sonicpunching]

If it's not too much, could I ask about how did this town strip all my abilities here? And to some extent, belongings?

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[enemyradar]

How they're able to do that is something no one really knows for sure. There's a lot of theories about it, though.

But you can get your stuff and abilities back eventually! There's a couple different ways.

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[sonicpunching]

Even summoning Perso- [Wait, don't finish it. It'll only gives her a confusion, Akihiko.] -even abilities that's not all normal human could?

Really, how?