♣ FIFTH ♣

[mechaeonical]

Deactivating my secrecy protocols may have been a mistake. Divulging information on my nature does not prompt panic and dangerous investigation, as I am informed it would in my world of origin, but it does cause undue confusion and surprise. However, at this time I have...chosen not to reactivate that programming for two reasons. Many citizens

Comments

[concept_killer]

Undue confusion and surprise? Do you mind speaking a language I can understand?

[mechaeonical]

I had believed that there was a mechanism in the City to translate everyone's speech. I am speaking Japanese, but I appear to have communicated with those speaking English, or another language.

[concept_killer]

Your words. Pick easier ones to understand. Unless you majored in language at a University, it's impossible to get half the stuff you said.

[mechaeonical]

...I comprehend.

Then what I will say is: by "undue confusion and surprise" I mean reactions similar to yours.

[notaweapon]

I have experienced the same.

[mechaeonical]

The same...? Please elaborate.

[notaweapon]

Your initial paragraph. The point you made regarding “[a lack of] panic and dangerous investigation, [but some] undue confusion and surprise.”

[mechaeonical]

Thank you for the clarification.

Yes, for people who have accepted their situation in this place, the citizens often show puzzling surprise when confronted with some of the other entities they meet here.

[denyinurgod]

...There is no need to return the reds.

[mechaeonical]

Nevertheless, I judged it correct to offer.

[denyinurgod]

Hm.

You can keep mine.

[mechaeonical]

...Did I provide a worthwhile service?

[soulofocean]

Please keep mine, Aigis. My reading was sure worth it.

[mechaeonical]

Thank you, Umi-san. I am pleased to have been of service, even though it was not in the manner I was originally intended.

[soulofocean]

Maybe as you meet more people and make more friends you'll realize you're better at some things than you thought you were.

[mechaeonical]

That is a possibility.

I would like it if events occurred that way.

[obliviomancy]

Forget it. It's just two reds.

[mechaeonical]

Understood.

I wished to make the offer all the same.

[obliviomancy]

Well, it's not like you did it on purpose.

[mechaeonical]

I did not. However, the exchange was nevertheless made, and I am not in need of the currency.