HOMOPHONIC 🌺 MIZUKI OKIURA

[piteous]

it's a baby

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[adorabrawler]

Yeah, Shibuya! It's one of the districts in Tokyo, where I live back home.

[piteous]

That's in Japan, right? Some of the people I know... Their ancestors are from there before they went into space.

So this is what it looks like—or kind of looks like.

[adorabrawler]

Yep! If you're not super familiar with it, it'd probably look the same. Either way—I got a pretty hefty taste of what your home is like, and now you get to see mine.

[piteous]

It's true I never got to go to earth... This is kind of nice? It looks similar to Japonifornia, but a little different.

[adorabrawler]

"Japanifornia" is basically two places in one, I'm guessing—the other place being California. So it's got the same vibe, more or less.

[piteous]

Beeeen to neither of those! but I do see some similarities between Shibuya and Japonifornia.

All of this got you missing home?

[adorabrawler]

... More than ever. It's not like I hang out in Shibuya all the time or anything, but I keep feeling like maybe I could hop on the train and head back home.

[piteous]

[ To be homesick... ]

Got anyone waiting for you?

[adorabrawler]

Mm... I dunno if there's anyone waiting for me, really.

[piteous]

... No friends, either?

[adorabrawler]

Well, I do have my friends...

I guess it'd depend on if we've been gone long enough for anyone to notice we're missing.

[piteous]

At most, I asked Kiichi about how we'd return... And I know that we wouldn't be put into a near-death situation if we were in one, then we'd keep our memories of our time here.

So I'm guessing time doesn't quite... Move.

[adorabrawler]

Huh... So it'd be like picking up where we were last?

[piteous]

If we were to believe them, then that's what it is.

A little convenient. I don't know what it's like for people at different timelines, though.

[adorabrawler]

... Me neither, but I don't have that to worry about.

[piteous]

That's good! Less of a headache.

... So I guess with going back to where you left off, "waiting for you" is not literal.

[adorabrawler]

I don’t think so. I was in the middle of something, though… I wonder if I’ll just get thrown back into that.

[piteous]

What's this something? School?

[ What do little girls with pipes do. ]

[adorabrawler]

Oh. No, I was… helping Date with his investigation. He’s a police detective.

[piteous]

With a testimony?

[ YOU ARE 12 ]

[adorabrawler]

[ shakes her head ]

Nah, he's working on a case. I wanted to do my part.

[piteous]

... I really don't want to say now you have a lot of experience.

[ IT FEELS

BAD

BUT IT'S TRUE ]

[adorabrawler]

Ugh. You're not wrong about that... Though, the police work way differently than we did.

[piteous]

I'm sure some of it is helpful!

[adorabrawler]

Yeah, I'll know to tell our next suspect they gotta strip down to their underwear.