shamelessness | ❀ 1st Weed in the Garden

❀ 1st Weed in the Garden - Action/Voice ❀

Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! It's cold! It's cold!

[A small blond teen in a new feather dress climbs out of the fountain, soaked from the knees down. She scrambles to get away and ends up running through the village a little before slipping and having a giant fall. This fall knocks her journal open. The recording was pressed on by accident, and the book is upside down so there is no picture. There is only:]

[Voice]
Ow, ow, ow, ow...

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[The book? Um... like the telephone they have at the shop? But it has no wires. There's a bit of rustling, and Shiemi picks up the book.]

H-hello? Miss Voice?

... Ange. My name is Ange, before some ridiculous nickname like 'Miss Voice' sticks.

[ Yup, the voice is still coming from the book, as deadpan as it was before. ]

Please don't mistake all of this, the journal doesn't have its own voice. It's just me talking through it.

Nice to meet you Ange! I'm Shiemi! [So chipper. Even if she's in a place she doesn't recognize. This... doesn't look like Kyoto.]

So this book is like a telephone?

Sort of like a telephone, yeah. I'm not sure why they made it look this way either, but whatever works for them, I guess.

You can contact pretty much anyone in this place with it.

Anyone? Are many people here? Where is here?

[ SO MANY QUESTIONS.. ]

I don't know, there's a reasonable amount, I guess. And this place is called Luceti, nobody knows for sure where it is, except that it's like.. another world or something like that.

Is there any way to get back?

Not as far as we know. And some people have been trapped here for years, so I'm sure people have already looked all over by now.

... So, yeah, we're practically stuck here for a while.

B-but I have something back in Kyoto that needs to be done! [She just can't leave her friends alone to face that!]

We all have things back home that we need to do. [ Ange too. ] But it's not like the Malnosso will let us go home just because of that.

Does that mean they'll keep going without me back home?

No. ... Well, I'm not sure of it myself, but people in this place say time back home stands still for as long as you're here, so you don't have to worry about what goes on back home until you get back.

Really? That would be so good if it were true!

Were you doing anything really important right at the moment you left your own world, Shiemi-san?

Yes. My friends and I were going to stop a demon.

Well, if the people here are right, you should be transported back to exactly that moment to continue fighting with your friends once the Malnosso decide to let you go. So I wouldn't worry too much about that, at least.

[There's a sigh of relief on this end.] You don't know how glad I am to hear that. Thank you so very much.

There's no reason to thank me.

... I mean, I just told you the basics of this place. Anyone would do that much.

B-but you didn't have to. I mean - it was nice that you did.

[ sorry, she's slightly tsundere over being called nice or anything of the sort.. ]

Don't sweat it. There are far more nice people in this place who would have done even more.

But you're the one who helped me!

U-um! Miss Ange do you think- [we could be friends? But that didn't work out so well with Kamiki, did it? Maybe she should wait before asking that of her.]

N-nevermind.

... Huh?

[ She blinks a few times to herself, maybe sounding a little genuinely surprised. ]

What were you going to say?

I w-was just wondering if... we could be friends.

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