[Video/Text] We don't want you to see/We come and we go/Here today, gone tomorrow

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[So... Ken doesn't look too happy. Not at all. You could start with the dark purplish bruise on his left cheek, and a cut covered in a band-aid above his right eye. You could also start with the fact he hasn't frowned this deeply in months. He's dressed in a jacket similar to his Gekkoukan uniform, but not the same one. He's

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Might be.

But I think that enough people you know disappear and sometimes it kinda feels like it's something that just happens.

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Nobody from my world ever sticks around. Maybe I should be more upset that they're going home... but I'm not.

I mean, everyone disappears some day, right?

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[usedstarpunch]

I can kinda see what you mean. They get to on with what they were doing at home and you're still here. But at the same time, I bet you got friends from different places here, too, right? It's kind of a hard thing to think about.

Yeah. I mean, there's no way everyone stays here forever, huh?

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Sanada-san and Mitsuru-san have enough to do at home. I'm kind of glad they got to go back, really.

I've been here a long time, but... I know most people haven't. I'm the only Ken Amada who's ever been in Johto, too.

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[usedstarpunch]

A long time? How long you been here?

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More than a year.

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Oh, man. That IS a real long time. I've only been here a little under a year myself.

Must be kinda hard sometimes being here so long, huh, especially if people keep disappearing on you.

[Not that Mac doesn't know a bit about people up and leaving.]

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There were people who were here before me, too. And I went home a couple times.

Not really. My best friend has been here, too... I met him a year ago, and it makes thins easier. Heather-san hasn't disappeared... a lot of people haven't. It's just my friends from home that have.

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You went home? Did you remember being here?

And even if people from home left, it's real good to know you have still friends you met here.

I haven't met anyone from where I am yet, but that's probably a good thing. Betting some of them would try to bust my nose or something.

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My body never actually left. I fell asleep for a week, here, but I spent time at home.

So long as Miles is around, and Clover-san and Heather-san, I don't think it really bothers me much that my friends from home disappear, anymore.

I think it's nice when nobody knows you, sometimes.

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[usedstarpunch]

Oh. I got it, I think.

Yeah. Besides, I think your friends from home would be happier knowing that you weren't feeling real bad about them being not being here.

It is, kinda. I mean, if nobody knows you, it's easier to go at your own pace. Though, I'm wondering if that's why I'm slacking so much.

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I don't think it'd matter much. It's not like they realize I'm here.

Slacking?

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[usedstarpunch]

Yeah. All this time I've been here, I only got one badge.

If my trainer were here, I bet I'd really hear it.

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Badges aren't that hard to get, are they? I have five.

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Well, it took me two tries for my first one. It ain't that it's all that hard. I've just been slacking off, I guess. I better get back to working on that.

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I really don't see the point in it.