hikaruorkaoru | Ninth Pattern ; video

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[Between make-up and natural recovery, Hikaru looks pretty good now. Definitely not like he got a beat down awhile ago. He looks at the camera, one brow arched.]

So. 'Bout that whole. "Evil Valentine's Day" thing people kept going on and on and on about...

This was kind of anti-climactic, y'know?

I mean. Seriously. Nothing.

Booooring.

[Someone doesn't know not to tempt fate, obviously.]

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[You mean that smile is all friendship and caring! What else could it be? Any and all smiles must be friendly ones.]

Ah, that's right, my name! I am Erica Fontaine, a nun. And what's your name?

[Friendship and caring! ...As delivered by a Hitachiin. Run, Erica. Run.]

Hikaru Hitachiin. It's great to meet you.

It's great to meet you too! Uh, hmm...

[Erica quickly grows quiet as she thinks about that name. Hikaru might even be able to hear her repeating 'Hitachiin' to herself a couple of times before she speaks up again.]

With a name like that, you must be from Japan! I'm right, aren't I?!

I am! I gave my name is Western order, so. It's Hikaru. Just so you know.

[He has learned that much, at least.

He is already plotting against her. Sorry, Erica.]

[Sob. Try and be nice to her Hikaru, she hasn't been here all that long!]

Thank you for letting me know! Uhm, this might be a little sudden, but could I ask you something?

[Nope. There is no mercy. The newer they are, the better.]

Ask me anything you like.

[Picking on the new ones, what a warm welcome to Luceti this is.]

Well, I couldn't help noticing your hair, and... Why don't you have a chonmage? Did you lose your license to have one when you came here?

...What's a chronmage?

You're really Japanese and you don't know? I see...

[She seems noticeably put out by that, but with a deep breath Erica carries on talking so she can explain.]

It's something Japanese people have on their heads. You need a license to have one, so I was wondering what happened to yours since you don't have a chonmage.

...Your world sounds really weird.

Eh, weird?! It can't be that weird, can it? It's really a wonderful world, even if you have a chonmage license or not!

It definitely sounds weird.

[For a moment it seems as though Erica might cry, but her expression suddenly shifts to a much more determined one. Perhaps Hikaru is from a part of Japan that just doesn't have chonmage yet! How horrible. He's missing out.]

It might only sound weird because you've never heard of a chonmage before. If you want, I can show you what one looks like!

Sure. Why not?

And why do people have it? Like... why do they need a license? What is it for?

I am not sure! [She sure sounds confident considering she gave the world's most unhelpful answer.] But I had heard all Japanese people had one, and a very close friend of mine told me you need a license to have one. So I've been training!

[That said, Erica starts grabbing clumps of her hair and begins trying to style it as best she can. Now she's trying to go for something like this, but with long hair she really isn't doing a good job of showing what a chonmage is supposed to look like... Though even if her hair was shorter and you really used your imagination she still wouldn't be able to make it look anything like a chonmage.]

This is my best chonmage! I think... Ahaha, this is much easier to do in front of a mirror.

[Hikaru stares for a moment and then, slowly, asks a very important question:]

What year are you from?

The year? Let me see... 1926.

[Erica lets go of her hair while she thinks, letting it messily fall down over her face.]

...Oh. Well. That... kind of explains it.

I'm from, like, almost eighty years later.

Oh, eighty years, I see... Wha-?! Are you a time traveler, Hikaru?!

[Clearly that's the most logical explanation here.]

Guess I kind of am! But it's more this place. It pulls people from different times.

...Of course, in my world, the chonmage [seeing it and thinking about it? the chord had finally been struck] was pretty much in the Edo era... which ended, like, two hundred years ago. Eighteen hundreds.

... So it's Luceti's doing, how wonderful. [Ah Luceti, bringing people together. More importantly however-]

But wait, if the chonmage was around all that time ago, then... Then does that mean that no one has one anymore? And what about the license?

I... think sumo wrestlers still have them? But I don't know any, so I could be wrong...

But. Yeah. No one wears that, like, every day.

Oh thank goodness! Hearing that a few people might still have them is a huge relief, even if they don't always have them.

[Though if that's the case then that means mister Ogami lied to her back home. Oh dear... If he ever shows up she'll need to ask him about chonmage again.]

Well. I know... worlds here aren't always the same histories. From what I've heard. So they... might still be common where you're from. Some... alternate history or... something.

Ah, so people might still have them after all! If worlds can be the same, only they have different pasts to other similar worlds, so they're really different all along then... Ahaha, this place can get very confusing with all the different worlds and times people are from.

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