Third Strike (Voice)

[ukilledmyfather]

I guess it's too much to ask for the fighting to be over, even here. Seems like a waste of a new world

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[gold_experience]

I have to say I'm in the same boat...I just came from a major gang war that claimed far too many lives...

In the name of Passione, I will stand and fight with the citizenry here, if only because of the familiar evil that is that man.

[ukilledmyfather]

I've been on the battlefield since I was nine. Thought a break might have been nice, but I guess I should know by now that I can't always get what I want...Not vengeance, not peace...

It seems like a lot of people are willing to protect whatever is threatened here...that's good. I hope not too many people get hurt, though...

What's your name?

[gold_experience]

I've been in the world of family based crime since about that time myself, though I'm not much more than a boy. I'm only 15, after all.

My name is Giorno Giovanna, signor.

[ukilledmyfather]

Fifteen? That's about how old I was when...

Good to meet you, Master Giorno. I'm Ling Tong. I guess you're not from China, then...

[gold_experience]

Italia, a nation in Europe.

[ukilledmyfather]

Too far away for me to have ever heard of...Or maybe it doesn't exist in my time. That's still a weird thought, but there are a bunch of people from "Japan", so...

[gold_experience]

It is the year 2001 A.D. in my own time and world, if that means anything.

Japan...yes, I have noticed a large number here. Makes me almost wish I had seen more of my home country before leaving...

[ukilledmyfather]

Somebody told me a number that was supposed to go with the time I come from...I dunno, I'm pretty used to thinking it's the year of the earth sheep right now... Two hundred something, I think? So...little bit of a gap there.

Then...you used to be from Japan?

[gold_experience]

Quite a gap.

Yes, I am actually half-Japanese, half...well...whatever my father was. My birth name is Haruno Shiobana.

[ukilledmyfather]

Yeah. Is China even around after that long? Well, I guess it has to be, right?

Huh. How did that happen? Sounds like "Italia" is really far from Japan, right? Was your father a traveler?

[gold_experience]

It is there. Currently quite Red.

A traveler...right...

[ukilledmyfather]

Really??...Wait, no, that's impossible. No family's stayed in power that long...So who's flying red banners in your time?

...I'm getting a "don't go there" feeling. I'll let that be, then. I'm asking a lot of questions already...

[gold_experience]

Communists, Signor. A militant socialist party that follows Marxist values of economics and power.

And yes, I'd rather not discuss my father.

[ukilledmyfather]

Yeah, that doesn't sound too much like Lord Sun Quan. Can't say for sure, though, until I know what half of those words mean...

Fair enough. Mine's been dead for coming up on ten years now...

[gold_experience]

Let's just say most of the world wasn't happy with it.

And I wish my father would know that it is proper for the dead to remain so...but he's quite the stubborn fellow.

[ukilledmyfather]

Kind of weird to think China isn't most of the world. Sorry to hear that, though.

.......What?