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[yukarchery]

Mmn...what...? [Yukari's a bit sluggish to get started, but soon she finds herself propped up against an alley wall, rubbing at her eyes with the flat of one palm. Last she recalled, she was coming back from school, and then...] Wait...wh-what the-?!

[Not school. An alley, and a dingy one at that; she's bolt upright now, scrambling to her feet.

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[pilot_princess]

Hey! You've got a gun like Shinji's!

[yukarchery]

[sdfklgew jolts a little. Who are all these people?]

Shinji?

[pilot_princess]

You don't know Shinji?

But you have one of those evoker things.

[yukarchery]

[so confusing]

Maybe. Shinji who?

...and how do you know about Evokers?

[pilot_princess]

Shinji Aragaki. He always wears a red coat and a stinky black beanie.

But if you don't know him... then... hmm.

[yukarchery]

...

That's not funny. Shinjiro-senpai's been dead for months.

[pilot_princess]

What? He's been here for over a year. What are you even talking about?

[yukarchery]

You know what I'm talking about! Whatever sick prank you're trying to pull, it's not gonna work!

[pilot_princess]

What the hell are you talking about?! Shinji runs a bar here!

Just how the hell do you know him, anyway?!

[yukarchery]

A bar? He's not even-- ugh! [Caaaalms herself down, though she still sounds pissy] Shinjiro-senpai went to my school and was friends with my senpai. And he died several months ago. Unless this is the afterlife, there's no way he could be running a bar.

[pilot_princess]

Oh... you must be one of his friends from back home!

Well, he's not dead here. Discedo's weird like that. I... didn't know he died...

[yukarchery]

You could say that. [doesn't believe her, but...she doesn't sound like she's lying.] How can he not be dead?

[pilot_princess]

Don't ask me! I'm not one of those damn scientists. [Have some pissy right back at ya, Anemone's already annoyed with her.]

[yukarchery]

[This is the start of a beautiful friendship.]

Do I even want to know?

[pilot_princess]

[I sense sparkles and rainbows in their future.]

Well, unless you like being controlled by people you've never met.

But you should know, your evoker probably won't work until you get your chip out.

[yukarchery]

Right, of course. How could I expect anything else.