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[ Twilight Town may as well be a quiet suburb, just in a different style than most and probably with taller buildings. Not many white picket fences there, but maybe more of the sentiment than anywhere else she ever got the chance to visit. ]

Right. [ It's a touch hesitant in her bemusement, but not out of any lack of actual agreement. ] More than I ever have before. Sometimes I don't even know what to do with myself, or all the free time I have.

[ Because there's so much, all of a sudden. So many people and places and things and for the first time the freedom to explore them. It's been quite overwhelming for a girl like her. Even so, her experiences have yet to make her so eager to throw around such ideas, herself. ]

Well-- I suppose that's true. [ And she has to resist saying, 'You really think he does...?' After all, if they're close friends, she probably shouldn't be questioning it. Cautiously, she attempts a smile, but it turns out a little weak and a little odd. The feelings associated with such a notion - she's fine recognizing they're all in it together, but giving it a name like 'teammates' feels a lot more personal than she's used to. ] I've... never been part of a team before. [ Remembering something, she pauses for a second, and then her expression becomes slightly more neutral, as though she's trying not to remember it again. ] Not this kind of team, anyway.

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[ Free time to go exploring? Really, this place seems to be a juxtaposition on itself. Battle Royale and a city to pick up new hobbies. How people reconcile those two extremes?

He sees that attempt to smile and tries to silently encourage it. She seems hesitant...is it an odd sentiment? He's gotten fairly comfortable with the concept of just right out helping people, maybe at one point a bit of a hero complex, but he learned that thanks and glory aren't the point, nor is acknowledgment. It's to do the right thing. That's the point.

Yosuke is a little surprised by her response. ]

Not even for clubs or anything? [ Maybe she's being more literal than he had meant, but... ] Well, it's like...solidarity for shared circumstances, you know? Helping each other out just makes sense.

[ By being from pretty crazy situations themselves, probably. Or at least, that's how she's been able to work it out. Her life never made sense before, so why should it now that she's been ripped away to an alternate world and or time by a suspicious and possibly nefarious organization she knows almost nothing about? ]

[ She can hardly disagree with him, in actuality. He has not, in her opinion, thought wrong, only phrased it differently in a way that's difficult for her to fit into her world view. But sensing that he might be surprised, she looks very slightly more self-conscious. ]

No. I've never been in any clubs, either. [ For a second, she falters; her reflex is to try to explain, but it feels as though there's no real way to do that accurately without giving away more than she'd like. So she says instead, ] I never really had the chance.

[ And just to be sure he knows she knows-- ] It's not that it doesn't make sense. It does. In fact, I'm really glad that everyone has been able to work so well together so far, for all our sakes. It's just.... [ Her head tips slightly as she parts her lips, then presses them together, mentally trying out one phrasing and then discarding it. ] ... I never would have thought to call us a 'team'. It seems kind of-- [ Presumptuous? Is that the word? Like saying they're all friends, somehow - but that's more her perception of the word than anything else and she can recognize that. Still, she tries, ] Forward?

Well...I guess that makes this kind of a new opportunity then, right?

[ Not that Yosuke had really taken a big part in any school clubs, he hadn't really wanted to and his part-time job took up more time than that, anyway. Maybe Yu would be a better person to talk to about the whole idea of meeting people over similar interests or in this case, obligations. ]

Forward? [ He considers that for a moment. ] I guess I never thought about it that way. My group of friends has always been kind of a team, you know? We came together because we all were working together towards the same goal, using similar power and were there to support each other. That's what a team is.

It is. It has been in-- a lot of ways.

[ There's a sort of falling toward the end, half thoughtful and half as though it's an admission she isn't entirely certain she should be making. Whatever's on her mind seems to have subsided, however, by the time she responds. ]

Well, yes. But I-- [ And this, unfortunately, is a part of her own psychology that remains somewhat obscure to her. She falters, focus retreating inward as she tries to determine the root cause of her reluctance. It isn't something she can put words to, and she struggles with it for a moment or two before finally shaking her head, lips pulling into a small frown. ] -- No, you're right. I don't know why I'm being so silly about it.

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