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Game 046 [Voice/Action] - The Longest Two Years

I'm guessing most if not all of you have felt the phenomenon where time seems to move at different rates, even though you know it's all in your mind. So tell me, does being in Luceti cause time to feel different to you than it did when you were back home?

[ Two years. It's been two years, and after experiencing as much time slip by as Joshua has, feeling those two years is a less-than-welcome change.

As a distraction, he spends the day painting a side of his building that has been blank ever since a certain someone went home. It's certainly not Hanekoma's style, but it's similar to it, the color scheme the same though the designs are more fluid, less blocky and more streamlined, with harsh points instead of rounded curves.

Maybe this is his way of making peace with it. Maybe he's finally moved on.

Maybe he's just that homesick. ]

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I most certainly am.

Even if I wasn't, though, making that fact obvious would do nothing but garner jealousy and hate.

As valuable an asset as that would be, you're probably exactly right about that. People don't take kind to others having freedoms they themselves don't.

It makes me wonder if the bitterness that some feel when others disappear is sorrow for losing a friend, or jealousy that they themselves were not spared.

I'd wager that that depends. There are those who've grown content with their lives here. Of them, I'd bet there isn't that envy.

But if anyone who still wishes to return home claims they aren't jealous when an acquaintance departs, they're a liar.

...You know. Your voice holds with it a far deeper knowledge than your visual age suggests.

It's a pleasure to actually speak with you... though I don't believe we actually exchanged names.

Ah, of course. Yoshiya Kiryu, but please, call me Joshua. And you are?

Yukari Yakumo.

But please, call me Yukari. It's a pleasure, Joshua.

The pleasure is all mine.

How long have you been in Luceti?

Hard to say, I don't pay attention to time, really. From the looks of the journal... almost two months?

Not long at all, then. I'm guessing you wish to return home?

I could care less; I am more worried for the state of my home than my place in it.

I do admit that this place is not to my taste, however.

[ That sounds familiar enough. ]

Is there some reason your home might be in trouble?

...Because I'm not there, naturally.

My powers are the ones that keep things going; I can only assume that the fact that my powers have been reduced a great deal more than the normal estimate is because some had to remain in Gensokyo to keep it stable.

[ /PING oh we shall be good friends and commiserate and have tea parties and things like that ]

Is that so? What's Gensokyo like?

It's a land of magic, far different from the outside world. It was created in the days of Feudal Japan, so aside from a few things leaking through the barrier, it has remained that way even as the outside world has matured.

It is a safehaven for youkai, a place where they may be themselves without having to fear humans dismissing the supernatural with their science.

Consider it like a wildlife preserve, except instead of lions and tigers, one has oni and tengu.

If it were to vanish without you, would the residents vanish as well, or would they be thrust into the outside world?

The two are fairly synonymous; were they to venture in the outside world, all but the strongest would die due to how little faith humans have in supernatural things and how advanced technology has become. Youkai truly are a thing whereupon fearing us makes us stronger.

One death or another, in other words. Do you feel the obligation to return home?

That question is one that few would get without experience. Here's one in response. Don't you?

My obligations are rather different, but I do feel there's things I need to go back for.

"The place can survive without me, but I'm never sure unless I can see with my own eyes".

In many ways, uncertainty is preferable to an poor absolute.

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Game 046 [Voice/Action] - The Longest Two Years

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