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Oh yeah? Really? [ He's definitely never lived in a city quite like this, he'll come to realize. At the moment, though, all he's seen is sand and...more sand. There's been a lot of sand in his two dives into ViViD. He'll be happy to see something that isn't sand soon. ] Where're you from originally? Small town?

[ He's learned that there are good things about small towns, at least. ]

Well, hey...friends are friends no matter what, right? As long as you've got them to back you up, it's like you can do anything. And that goes for you too.

Mm. [ The smile on her lips ebbs slightly as she gives a quiet 'um' as her initial response to his question. The way she pauses, it's not hard to tell she really has to think about how to answer that, but it isn't out of any dishonesty. ] Not exactly. [ A mostly empty castle in an indistinct part of the universe is not a small town, but it was certainly small population-wise. She does not actually explain where, 'originally', she is from, and instead, ] But I lived in a pretty quiet one for a long time. It wasn't small, exactly, but it wasn't nearly as... busy as things are here. There weren't as many people, either. [ She falters briefly, as if debating with herself, then adds, ] I didn't get out much, anyway, so I never got to see most of it.

[ If 'much' and 'ever' are the same thing. In any case, her smile begins to regain strength at his other words - although the last bit makes her perk as though surprised. ]

-- Me? [ ... Huh. Well, he's not as wrong as he might have been before she came to Cerealia, but even now there are only a few people who have hit her upside the head with the 'friend' title and gotten it through her selectively thick skull that she's allowed to call them that. She's not quite as somber about it as she might otherwise have been, at least, but there's still a sort of subtle wilting. ] Why do you say that...?

[ Yosuke, of course, has no reason to imagine anything but towns and cities and villages and...bigger cities? You know, normal places to live and grow up. So he pictures maybe a quiet suburb. Still fairly innocuous. ]

So that's something you get to do more here, right?

[ It's easy for him to throw those ideas around, though. Ever since he bonded with the Investigation Team, it only seems right to do what you can for nice people, regardless of how well you know them. ]

We're all in this together, right? So that already makes us teammates. I'm sure Yu feels the same way.

[ 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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